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| Genre/Form: | Biography Autobiography Popular Works |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Lucy Grealy |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lucy Grealy |
| ISBN: | 0395657806 9780395657805 |
| OCLC Number: | 30156226 |
| Description: | 223 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Luck -- Petting zoo -- The Tao of laugh-in -- Fear itself -- Life on earth -- Door number two -- Masks -- Truth and beauty -- World of unknowing -- The habits of self-consciousness -- Cool -- Mirrors. |
| Responsibility: | Lucy Grealy. |
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"Lucy Grealy's ruthless self-examination, rich fantasy life, and great derring-do inform this powerful memoir about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance after childhood surgery left her jaw disfigured. As a young girl she absorbed the searing pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special. Later she internalized the paralyzing fear of never being loved. Heroically and poignantly, she learned to define herself from the inside out." "This memoir arrives at a time when the worship of beauty in our culture is at an all-time high, a time when more and more women seek physical perfection. Lucy Grealy awakens in us the difficult truth that beauty, finally, is to be found deep within."--BOOK JACKET.
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