Lucy Grealy





Lucy Grealy

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born
in Dublin, Ireland
June 03, 1963

died
December 18, 2002

gender
female

genre


About this author

Lucinda Margaret Grealy was a poet and memoirist who wrote Autobiography of a Face in 1994. This critically acclaimed book describes her childhood and early adolescence experience with cancer of the jaw, which left her with some facial disfigurement. In a 1994 interview with Charlie Rose conducted right before she rose to the height of her fame, Lucy states that she considers her book to be primarily about the issue of 'identity.'


Average rating: 3.94 · 13,843 ratings · 1,001 reviews · 6 distinct works · Similar authors
Autobiography of a Face
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 9,497 ratings — published 1994 — 12 editions
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More books by Lucy Grealy…
“Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape?”
Lucy Grealy

“Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them.”
Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face

“I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.”
Lucy Grealy

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