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Lucy Grealy's ruthless self-examination, rich fantasy life, and great derring-do inform this powerful memoir about the premium we put on beauty and on a woman's face in particular.
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Earnest, spare, grave and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Lucy Grealy
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 230
- Publisher
- Methuen, Harper Perennial, Houghton Mifflin
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780613648394
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