Autobiography of A Face - Tapa blanda

"This is a book that makes us question the very concept of beauty. Read it twice and then read it again..." Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto, and The Magician's Wife"

When it was first published in America in 1994, Autobiography of a Face heralded award-winning poet Lucy Grealy's emergence as one of the most compelling writers of her generation. At age nine the writer was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and had to have a large part of her jaw removed. Written with an unconquerable wit, Grealy's memoir recalls the repercussions of that event; endless reconstructive surgery, the profound emotional trauma of a disrupted adolescence, feelings of rejection and inadequacy in a society obsessed with physical perfection, and the consequences of her own desperate need to be loved. Robbed of her outward beauty as a child, Lucy Grealy turned her tragic misfortune into a book of tremendous lyrical resonance, and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.