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 56%
challenging 33%
dark 30%
inspiring 22%
informative 17%
tense 14%
funny 6%
hopeful 6%
adventurous 1%

Pace

medium 61%
slow 25%
fast 13%

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