"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." 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.
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讀後感
Reading Autobiography of Face reminds me of another narrative I read ten years ago of a Chinese young writer 子尤, who also had cancer at around 14 and died two years later. He became a small celebrity at the time for his tale子尤子尤riting at such young ag...
評分Reading Autobiography of Face reminds me of another narrative I read ten years ago of a Chinese young writer 子尤, who also had cancer at around 14 and died two years later. He became a small celebrity at the time for his tale子尤子尤riting at such young ag...
評分Reading Autobiography of Face reminds me of another narrative I read ten years ago of a Chinese young writer 子尤, who also had cancer at around 14 and died two years later. He became a small celebrity at the time for his tale子尤子尤riting at such young ag...
評分Reading Autobiography of Face reminds me of another narrative I read ten years ago of a Chinese young writer 子尤, who also had cancer at around 14 and died two years later. He became a small celebrity at the time for his tale子尤子尤riting at such young ag...
評分Reading Autobiography of Face reminds me of another narrative I read ten years ago of a Chinese young writer 子尤, who also had cancer at around 14 and died two years later. He became a small celebrity at the time for his tale子尤子尤riting at such young ag...
用戶評價
這本書讓我思考，迴憶錄迴憶的是什麼？迴憶錄書寫的對迴憶的reflection，是經過藝術手法的再創造。
评分感恩audio book的2倍速強行加快我的眼動速度，得以第一次一天刷完瞭一本書...很美很subjective，隻是告訴你“我”在每個人生階段是怎麼想的，是雞湯還是毒雞湯，留給讀者自己去熬。她的很多想法counter-intuitive但是在細緻的reasoning下變得無比閤理，一方麵讓我理解瞭很多people with facial disfigurement的感覺，另一方麵竟通過她的講解理解瞭一部分自卑的自己。但最終該作者還是死於drug overdose。確實，不是每一次自我救贖都會成功，不是每一個人都活到瞭完全自洽，不是每一份感情都能真正感同身受——也許是悲，又值得慶幸？after all, it is uniqueness that proves our worth...？
评分女主角並不把自己寫得可愛值得同情，故事一點不雞湯勵誌，不錯
评分The dilemma between wanting to be loved as who we are and wanting to be "perfect"
评分The dilemma between wanting to be loved as who we are and wanting to be "perfect"
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