Truth & beauty : a friendship / Ann Patchett.
Truth & beauty : a friendship / Ann Patchett.
Alternate Title
:
Truth and beauty : a friendship
By
:
Patchett, Ann.
Publication Date
:
2004
Publication Information
:
New York : HarperCollins,
Edition
:
1st ed.
Physical Description
:
257 p.
Subject Term
:
Ewing's sarcoma -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Disfigured persons -- United States -- Biography.
Female friendship -- United States.
Summary
:
Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Gealy's critically acclaimed and hugely successful memoir, Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw to childhood cancer, years of chemotherapy and radiation, and endless reconstructive surgeries. In Truth & Beauty, the story isn't Lucy's life or Ann's life, but the parts of their lives they shared together. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long cold winters of the Midwest, to surgical wards, to book parties in New York. Through love, fame, drugs, and despair, this is what it means to be part of two lives that are intertwined...and what happens when one is left behind.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780060572143
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