Lucy Grealy Autobiography of A Face Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd (September 30, 2004) Language: English Pages: 224 ISBN: 978-0413774743 Size: 24.32 MB Format: PDF / ePub / Kindle The bestselling memoir by a woman who survived terminal illness only to confront the tragedy of being deemed...
How the autobiography represents illness; How the text begins; What demonstrates the power of cultural stereotypes to enforce conformity.MintzSusannahB.Biography: An Interdisciplinary QuarterlyMinz, S., 2001, `Writing as refiguration: Lucy Grealy's Autobiography of a face', Biography: An ...
In her moving memoir, Autobiography of a Face, award-winning poet Lucy Grealy describes her life as a cancer victim who, at nine years old, has part of her jaw removed. From then on, she endures operation after operation in order to reconstruct her disfi
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