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Summary: The author describes her twenty-year friendship with Lucy Grealy, tracing their introduction at a writer's workshop, the integral part their friendship played in their writing careers, and her witness to Grealy's medical deterioration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2005
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Summary: Author Ann Patchett relates the story of her friendship with fellow writer Lucy Grealy, and of Lucy's zest for life despite a long struggle with a disfiguring childhood cancer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 PATGrealy, Lucy.
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2003