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Title: Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy ISBN: 0-06-056966-2 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.51 (47 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best true story I've ever read
Comment: I think about this book nearly every day, even though I read it several years ago. It has had a profound impact on my own life. It is a real-life story about a young girl growing up with jaw bone cancer and having to live with multiple surgeries and radiation to try to rid her jaw of cancer. During and after the disfiguring surgeries and radiation, she has difficulties adjusting to society's taunts and stares, beginning with her schoolmates and continuing with adults. There is no ugly duckling to beautiful swan transformation. It's just one girl trying to survive cancer and make it through a difficult life in this beauty obsessed world. This book is a must read for anyone who feels that their appearance makes them unacceptable. It is a story of great personal fortitude coming from a little girl whose family just isn't capable of dealing with the cancer and the emotional pain she must endure.
Rating: 5
Summary: DISABLED IN ACTION
Comment: Lucy has had to contend with cancer from a very early age. At 10, she undergoes surgery and follow-up treatments to remove a cancerous jaw. This unfortunately alters her appearance and Lucy has to live with the hostile stares, cruel comments and stupid remarks made by insensitive people.
Although Lucy uses the word "disabled," it is the opinion of this reviewer that Lucy was disabled in ACTION. As unfortunate as her health and appearance altering condition is, Lucy remains true to her core self. Bright, witty and extremely verbal, Lucy reminds the world at large of how character all too often is eclipsed by appearance. Lucy also inadvertently reminds all who have read this book that "able" is the core part of "disable" and that "dis" is simply a prefix. Therefore, she is more ABLE that disabled. That is a very affirming thought.
Lucy is truly an inspiration and gives a good reminder to ALL persons never to judge somebody based on physical appearance. In this book, Lucy is truly beautiful.
Rating: 5
Summary: The most beautiful prose and the most moving story
Comment: This book did me in. I absolutely loved ever word. Lucy Grealy's prose is hauntingly beautiful. And her story is purely haunting, especially since her death, which sounds like it was a suicide. It is at once a deeply sad and profoundly hopeful book, full of wisdom and insight. As a reader who has dealt with a disabling chronic illness for the last 13 years, I felt "responance" with this book in a way that I have with no other book before or since.
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Title: Truth & Beauty : A Friendship by Ann Patchett ISBN: 0060572140 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 11 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: As Seen on TV : Provocations by Lucy Grealy ISBN: 1582341532 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 06 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics) by Ford Madox Ford, Thomas C. Moser ISBN: 019283620X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Waist-High in the World : A Life Among the Nondisabled by Nancy Mairs ISBN: 0807070874 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 22 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness by Arthur W. Frank ISBN: 0618219293 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 16 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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