
Autobiography of a Face
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Narrated by:
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Coleen Marlo
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By:
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Lucy Grealy
"I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent 15 years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison."
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, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect.
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Heartwrenching, but perspective building...
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I never knew...
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However, upon listening to it now, it was simply a long list of the surgeries and misery that Lucy Grealy endured and I didn’t find it at all interesting, surprising or enlightening. I’m a bit bewildered that the things I most loved about this book and remembered… are simply not there.
This isn’t a great listen unless you like to more yourself in surgical tales.
Not at all how I remember this book
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A startling real and raw accounting.
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my love for Lucy...❤
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Worth reading twice
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Fascinating memoir
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the pain and loneliness
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Rewarding listen even if memoir is not your thing
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Pathos and Resilience
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