Autobiography of a face / Lucy Grealy.
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SoundPublisher: [Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Audio, [2016]Copyright date: ℗2016Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 MP3 CD (approximately 6 hr.) : digital ; 12 cmContent type: spoken word Media type: audio | computer Carrier type: audio disc | computer discISBN: 9781515961215; 1515961214Subject(s): Grealy, Lucy | Disfigured persons -- United States -- Biography | Ewing's sarcoma -- Patients -- United States -- BiographyGenre/Form: Audiobooks. DDC classification: 362.19699/47160092 | B Performed by Coleen Marlo.Summary: "A New York Times Notable Book "This is a young woman's first book, the story of her own life, and both book and life are unforgettable." --New York Times "Engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of [Grealy's] own wit and style and class."--Washington Post Book World This powerful memoir is about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy Grealy 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 cancer and surgery that left her jaw disfigured. As a young girl, she absorbed the searing pain of peer rejection and the paralyzing fear of never being loved"--
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| Adult Non Fiction Audio | Northam | B/GRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | MP3 | 31111069055885 |
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"A New York Times Notable Book "This is a young woman's first book, the story of her own life, and both book and life are unforgettable." --New York Times "Engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of [Grealy's] own wit and style and class."--Washington Post Book World This powerful memoir is about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular. It took Lucy Grealy 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 cancer and surgery that left her jaw disfigured. As a young girl, she absorbed the searing pain of peer rejection and the paralyzing fear of never being loved"--
Performed by Coleen Marlo.
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