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By Lucy Grealy. 223 pp. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1995. $19.95. ISBN 0-395-65780-6.

Although physicians understand how a patient's definition of self and identity may be bound to the face, in Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy writes about this topic from a unique and sobering perspective. At the age of 9, she underwent a partial mandibulectomy for Ewing's sarcoma, followed by 2¹/2 years of chemotherapy and radiation treatments. In her book, written when she was in her 20s, Grealy describes the daily burden of physical and emotional pain she bears and explores how this helped define her persona.

Whether trying to eat after chemotherapy or withstand the jeers of boys in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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