Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

Autobiography of a Face

Lucy Grealy

256 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Description

I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the gr...

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Moods

emotional 87%
reflective 75%
sad 58%
challenging 39%
dark 31%
inspiring 22%
informative 20%
tense 12%
funny 6%
hopeful 4%

Pace

medium 60%
slow 23%
fast 15%

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3.89

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