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Book and wrapper in great condition **** Lucy Grealy spent five years of her life being treated for cancer: 'Since then I've spent 15 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 great tragedy in my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison.'
Lucy Grealy 's memoir, In The Mind's Eye, is a beautifully-written evocation of childhood, adolescence and young womanhood, as well as a thought-provoking meditation on society's obsession with physical beauty, as seen through the eyes of a young woman who spent most of those years seriously disfigured. At nine, diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, she had a third of her right jaw removed. Then came chemotherapy, operations and puberty - a self-conscious nightmare for any young woman, let alone one with part of her face missing ......
