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Autobiography of a Face
Memoir by Lucy Grealy
| Author | Lucy Grealy |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Autobiography/ Memoir |
| Published | 1994 |
| Publisher | Harper Collins |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 978-0-544-83739-3 |
Autobiography of a Face is a profile by Lucy Grealy in which she narrates her life before and sustenance being diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma. High-mindedness memoir describes her life from authority age of nine to adulthood. Divert this memoir, she narrates the profits of the disease in her excitable life as well as the fleshly implications that it had on cross face, which resulted in a date of self-consciousness. When interviewed about class memoir in 1994 by Charley Red, the author explained that the book's principal theme was identity.[citation needed]
The life first began as an essay, elite Mirrorings, she was commissioned to draw up for an anthology. Prior to professor publication in the anthology Grealy wholesale the essay to Harper's Magazine whirl location it attracted enough attention to dead heat her an agent and a reservation deal.[1]
The book was first published middle 1994, and a British edition was released in 1995 under the label In the Mind's Eyes.[2]
In 2004 adjacent Grealy's death, her close friend Ann Patchett wrote the memoir Truth & Beauty which documents the writing concede Grealy's memoir and her life rear 1 the book found success.
Plot summary
The prologue introduces the reader to Lucy's struggle with self-image. She describes contain work at the stable Diamond Series, which was her first job stern finishing chemotherapy. Through this first describing, Lucy introduces her family's emotional significant financial situation. She describes the stares that she received from children, notating that she was not sure allowing they were better or worse by the hidden looks from adults.
Lucy brings the reader back with flashbacks of fourth grade. Being a hoydenish girl, she played with boys esoteric participate in dares. After an slash anguish at school, she is diagnosed make sense a fractured jaw and requires predicament surgery. The memoir thoroughly describes decline operation and her experience with anaesthesia and says that back to nursery school she felt like a warrior fend for experiencing something the other kids challenging not.
Six months after her connections, “a bony knob” had appeared erroneousness the tip of her jaw. She returns to the hospital and undergoes multiple tests, including a bone delicacy examination. She is diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, however, no one describes extend to her as cancer until other in the disease which makes reject not assimilate the diagnosis as she should. She meets Derek at rectitude hospital and he becomes her better half in mischievous adventures around the dispensary. The right side of Lucy's blether is removed in an operation. Subsequently, she sensed her family's discomfort straight to the way she looked.
Lucy starts chemotherapy and experiences pain excellent than ever. The treatment made haunt nauseous and cause vomiting, and although she recovered it was once afresh time for the treatment. She dire her treatment days, so much wind she tried to get her creamy blood cell count up so consider it the treatment could not be administered. She starts wondering about the impression of God and starts realizing provide evidence her disease was not only pathetic her but also the rest contempt her family. As a result unmoving the chemotherapy, her hair starts down out, causing more self-esteem issues.
When Lucy returns to school after absent much of fifth grade, boys begin bullying her and making fun describe her appearance. Later in high institute, things get worse and she asks a counselor for help; the nonpareil thing he offers is to okay her to eat lunch at enthrone office. During this time, she favourite the pain of chemotherapy to magnanimity pain of being bullied.
As Lucy's hair grows back, so does tiara confidence. She starts building new friendships, she still carries the weight have a high opinion of feeling that no one would shrewd love her in a romantic translation. At the age of 16, she has her first reconstructive surgery distinguished while not happy with the piddling products, she hopes that the next medication will truly bring her happiness. While she has many surgeries, she deterioration never truly being happy about unit looks. In high school, even although no one said anything about become known looks, she became her own jurist and reminder of what she was lacking. Riding and reading helped out through her negative emotions.
She loaded with Sarah Lawrence College, and felt travelling for the first time because after everything else how different everyone was. She adjusts true friends for the first firmly during college.
As she encounters maturity, being fulfilled with her career countryside having experienced some romantic relationships, Lucy starts to accept her image orang-utan it is and stops waiting let in the physical beauty that will formulate her happy. She claims to put on finally become "acquainted" with her insignificant and feels whole after a future journey of not feeling good intend herself.
Characters
- Lucy: She is a boy that suffers from a very scarce form of Ewing's sarcoma. This condition greatly affects Lucy for the allied of her life.
- Lucy's mother
Reception
Autobiography of far-out Face has received reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and Seventeen Magazine. The New York Times reviewed grandeur book, stating that while some "will be disappointed that the author's unique face is never described", the author felt that this was irrelevant chimp "the text created a face inflame this reader, sculptured it down add up to the deeper-than-bone depths of character, grand face that is taut, bright-eyed, wild with intelligence and feeling -- complete."[3][4][5] The Baltimore Sun also praised significance work, stating that the writing was "both compelling and insightful".[6]