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M i autobiography of a face

          As Grealy makes clear, her appearance perpetuates a kind of unhealthiness even after she no longer has cancer..

          Autobiography of a Face

          Memoir by Lucy Grealy

          AuthorLucy Grealy
          LanguageEnglish
          GenreAutobiography/ Memoir
          Published1994
          PublisherHarper Collins
          Publication placeUnited States
          ISBN978-0-544-83739-3

          Autobiography of a Face is a memoir by Lucy Grealy in which she narrates her life before and after being diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma.

          The novel Autobiography of a Face is one woman's story of living with only half of a face for most of her life.

        1. The novel Autobiography of a Face is one woman's story of living with only half of a face for most of her life.
        2. “This is a young woman's first book, the story of her own life, and both book and life are unforgettable.”.
        3. As Grealy makes clear, her appearance perpetuates a kind of unhealthiness even after she no longer has cancer.
        4. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit.
        5. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy.

          6. The memoir describes her life from the age of nine to adulthood. In this memoir, she narrates the consequences of the disease in her emotional life as well as the physical implications that it had on her face, which resulted in a lifetime of self-consciousness.

          When interviewed about the memoir in 1994 by Charley Rose, the author explained that the book's principal theme was identity.[citation needed]

          The memoir first began as an essay, entitled Mirrorings, she was commissioned to write for an anthology.

          Prior to its publication in the anthology Grealy sold the essay to Harper's Magazine w