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You may send this item to up to five recipients. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. This malformed URI has been treated as a string - 'http: Grealy relates a struggle made all the more difficult because of her dual identity as a woman and a person with a disability, a term encompassing both physical illness and the social, economic, and psychological ramifications of the stigmatization of facial difference.

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Lucy Grealy’s "Autobiography of a Face" and A.M. Homes "The Mistress’s Daughter"

Home About Help Search. Lucy has lived in three worlds: Covering several years of chemotherapy and radiation treatments and more than a decade of reconstructive surgeries, Grealy's narrative of alienation is a complex meditation on the nature of identity—what we desire to be, what "we are meant to be," 1 what others make of us, what we discover or make of ourselves in conjunction with the roles we play in society and the images of ourselves that the world reflects back to us.

Nobody was close to her or had the ability to be close to her due to her inability to let anybody be part of her world or gresly other people's inability to be relaxed next to her and become part of her world. Prologue In Autobiography of a FaceLucy Grealy — relates her efforts to come to terms with the physical and emotional ramifications of the removal of a cancerous portion of her jaw at the age of nine.

This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Autobiography of a face Author: To an extent, of course, personal and political goals coincide within personal narratives of disability like Grealy's.

Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information lkcy availability. The dollhouse was behind glass and Lucy was behind a wall, which is invisible to the human eye.

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Citations are based on reference standards. In her memoir, she tells the audience in great detail about the treatment she got, her family and the life she had after her recovery. Lucy Grealy Find more information about: Lucy seemed to be happy about his behavior because she believed that doing the opposite would make it even more difficult for him to deal with the problem: Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item Grealy's sense of incompleteness was perhaps more acute than it would have been if her disability had taken a different form.

First of all, Lucinda Grealy, whose nickname is Lucy, contracted cancer as a child, had chemotherapy and multiple surgeries, and survived from it.

Advanced Search Find a Library. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison. Built on the Johns Hopkins University Campus. The title of G.