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02158cam a2200337Ia 4500 |
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00004530 |
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OCoLC |
| DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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200801241441 |
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20060113074115.0 |
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030318t20031994nyu 000 0 eng d |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0060569662 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780060569662 |
| CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
STA |
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STA |
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VET |
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XY4 |
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OCLCQ |
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XY4 |
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BAKER |
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GZD |
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n-us--- |
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GZDA |
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js* |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
155.916 |
| AUTHOR NAME |
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| AUTHOR NAME |
Grealy, Lucy. |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Autobiography of a face / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Lucy Grealy. |
| EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st Perennial ed. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Perennial, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2003, c1994. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
236 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
21 cm. |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Luck -- Petting zoo -- The Tao of laugh-in -- Fear itself -- Life on earth -- Door number two -- Masks -- Truth and beauty -- World of unknowing -- The habits of self-consciousness -- Cool -- Mirrors. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she faced the cruel taunts of classmates. In this strikingly candid memoir, Grealy tells her story of great suffering and remarkable strength without sentimentality and with considerable wit. Vividly portraying the pain of peer rejection and the guilty pleasures of wanting to be special, Grealy captures with unique insight what it is like as a child and young adult to be torn between two warring impulses: to feel that more than anything else we want to be loved for who we are, while wishing desperately and secretly to be perfect. "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 great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison." |
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Ewing's sarcoma |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Disfigured persons |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
01. English Non Fiction |
| LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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| d |
155.9 GRE |
| c |
211 |
