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  <title>Autobiography of a Face</title>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am interested in writing memoir or at least creative non-fiction so I was excited to read this book. Certainly autobiography is self-centered by nature and one should not be surprised to find the subject's conciousness to take center stage. Grealy somehow manages to almost completely immerse us in her thoughts and feelings for the eighteen years between her diagnosis with Ewing's sarcoma and the writing of the book. Her honesty is unflinching and totally politically incorrect at times. There are times when we find her heartless--her lack of sorrow at her fathers death--which she herself admits as strange. She also doesn't seem to understand what poverty is when she has health insurance and all these operations and her family can still afford to keep a horse, but for the most part I found her story very engrossing and not at all pitiful. I'm ready to read Truth and Beauty now though I hear her twin does not approve of Ann Pratchett's telling of her sister's story. One does crave the rest of the story though and an understanding of her demise at 42 after living through cancer at 10.]]></body>
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