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| 1. | Amazon.com |
| At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer.
When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced
the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir,... read full editorial |
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| 2. | From Publishers Weekly |
| Diagnosed at age nine with Ewing's sarcoma, a cancer that severely
disfigured her face, Grealy lost half her jaw, recovered after two and
half years of chemotherapy and radiation, then underwent plastic surgery
over the next... read full editorial |
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| 3. | From Library Journal |
| When Grealy was nine years old, a toothache led to a visit to the dentist,
several misdiagnoses, and eventually surgery that removed most of the
right side of her jaw. What she had was Ewing Sarcoma, a deadly form of
cancer... read full editorial |
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| 4. | New York Times Book Review |
| Despite its unblinking stare at an excruciatingly painful subject, this is
not a dour book. Autobiography of a Face is a book about image,
about the tyranny of the image of a beautiful - or even pleasingly average
- face... read full editorial |
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| 5. | --Washington Post Book World |
| "Grealy has turned her misfortune into a book that is engaging and
engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty."--This text refers to
the
Paperback edition. |
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| 6. | From Booklist |
| Grealy's is a book you want to hand to people saying only, "Read it." Why?
Because she has triumphed over something we all fear, the disfigurement of
her face. And she writes about her experience with dignity, precision,... read full editorial |
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| 7. | From Kirkus Reviews |
| A gracefully written account of one woman's physical and spiritual struggle
to surmount childhood cancer, permanent disfigurement, and, ultimately,
``the deep bottomless grief...called ugliness.'' After surviving
relentless... read full editorial |
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| 8. | From Book News, Inc. |
| The author, a poet, writes intimately and lucidly of her experiences
growing up with a facial disfigurement, for which she underwent more than
30 reconstructive procedures. No scholarly trappings. Annotation copyright
Book... read full editorial |
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| 9. | New York Times |
| This is a young woman's first book, the storyo f her own life, and both
book and life are unforgettable. |
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| 10. | Book Description |
| "I spent five years of my life being treated for
cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing
other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from
that, from feeling ugly, that... read full editorial |
