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Häftad, Engelska, 2024
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2016
231 kr
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A New York Times Notable Book
"Grealy has turned her misfortune into a book that is engaging and engrossing, a story of grace as well as cruelty, and a demonstration of her own wit and style and class."—Washington Post Book World
“It is impossible to read Autobiography of a Face without having your consciousness raised forever.” – Mirabella
In this celebrated memoir and exploration of identity, cancer transforms the author’s face, childhood, and the rest of her life.
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. It took her twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty years of reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance. In this lyrical and strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. She captures what it is like as a child and a 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.
- E-bokEngelska, 2026
89 kr
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'Both book and life are unforgettable' New York Times 'Read it twice and then read it again' Ann PatchettAt age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. It took her twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty years of reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance. In this lyrical and strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. She captures what it is like as a child and a 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. - Häftad, Engelska, 2026
154 kr
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'Both book and life are unforgettable' New York Times'Read it twice and then read it again' Ann PatchettAt age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. It took her twenty years of living with a distorted self-image and more than thirty years of reconstructive procedures before she could come to terms with her appearance. In this lyrical and strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. She captures what it is like as a child and a 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. - E-bokSpanska, 2025
146 kr
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Cuando tenía nueve años, a Lucy Grealy le diagnosticaron un tipo de cáncer conocido como sarcoma de Ewing. Contra todo pronóstico, logró sobrevivir, pero durante los siguientes años, y después de que le extirparan una parte de la mandíbula, tuvo que someterse a decenas de operaciones para intentar reconstruir su rostro desfigurado. Grealy aprendió entonces a vivir con las burlas o la compasión de los demás; aprendió a aceptar su imagen reflejada en el espejo; aprendió a crecer de una forma distinta a la del resto de adolescentes. Aprendió, en definitiva, a gestionar la diferencia y la indiferencia.Estas memorias son el relato de los años de infancia en un suburbio de Nueva York, de los días de colegio, de la aparición de la enfermedad y el intento de normalizarla, de las travesuras en el hospital junto a otros niños enfermos, de la relación con padres y hermanos, de la llegada de la adolescencia y el descubrimiento de la vida.Autobiografía de un rostro fue publicado originalmente en 1994, seis años antes de que Lucy Grealy muriera por culpa de una sobredosis de heroína. Por ser un testimonio enormemente sincero, narrado de forma brillante y sin un ápice de sentimentalismo, el libro recibió pronto el aplauso de la crítica y el público anglosajón. Grealy escribió, sin caer en el dramatismo o la autocompasión, un texto que nos interpela directamente —la búsqueda de aceptación propia y ajena, la relación con la familia y el entorno— y que parece por momentos envuelto en el ingenuo desenfado de la primera juventud. Un pequeño tesoro de la literatura memorialista traducido ahora por primera vez a nuestro idioma.
