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Lucinda Margaret Grealy (June 3, – December 18, ) was an Irish-American poet and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescent experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement.
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Lucy grealy book

Publication date Topics Grealy, Lucy, Ewing's sarcoma -- Patients -- United States -- Biography, Disfigured persons -- United States -- Biography Publisher Houghton .

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Lucy Grealy's ruthless self-examination, rich fantasy life, and great derring-do inform this powerful memoir about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in .
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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 .