Latest book releases autobiography of a face

Lucy Grealy’s memoir AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FACE was met with wide critical and popular acclaim when published.

Autobiography of a Face [Thirtieth Anniversary Edition] by Lucy Grealy, Foreword by Suleika Francey Jaouad.

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.

A thirtieth-anniversary edition of Lucy Grealy's celebrated memoir, a timeless exploration of identity, loneliness, the nature of beauty, and strength.

Autobiography of a face [thirtieth anniversary edition].

This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescence experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement.

The book is overrated in my opinion, and it provides a good test case for Vivian Gornick’s concepts of the “situation” and the “story.” “Every work of literature has both a situation and a story,” Gornick writes in her book THE SITUATION AND THE STORY.

“The situation is the context or circumstance, sometimes the plot; the story is the emotional experience that preoccupies the writer: the insight, the wisdom, the thing one has come to say” (13). Grealy’s situation is compelling: as a young girl, she is diagnosed with the rare and formidable Ewing's Sarcoma and has an operation to remove the malignant tumor from her face.

Her prognosis is dismal, and she is left with a disfigurement that makes her “ugly.” This sense of her own ugliness looms over her, and thus the story is about her unsurprising search f