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Loading... Truth & Beauty: A Friendshipby Ann Patchett
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Beautifully written love story. (  ) zutron | Nov 29, 2009 |  A touching story about friendship. It made me cry. ASArmoudlian | Aug 25, 2009 | This is the story of Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy. The love that Ann had for Lucy shines through the pages and the tragedy and heartbreak shows as well. It's the story of a woman who wanted to have a face, wanted to be pretty but her cancer got in the way almost every time. The number of surgeries she endured to try to be normal or look normal were amazing and she never really gave up the hope that something would work. Eventually her disassocation with the real world and inability to accept herself for herself got in the way of her life. I read Lucy's Autobiography of a Face several years ago and was impressed with her ability to cope with what was going on. This shows another aspect of that struggle, the support she got from others. Yes, it's sometimes a bit over-sentimental, I could almost see Ann's frustration at not being able to help more or change Lucy so that she wouldn't be so self-destructive, while still wanting Lucy to be Lucy. A hard balance, well written about. (  ) wyvernfriend | Aug 5, 2009 | I tried to read this book for our "Let's Talk About It" book group, using the theme of love and friendship and making a difference. I could not finish this book and it was not a popular book among the group's members. I found it suffocating and excruciatingly slow. (  ) irishwasherwoman | May 26, 2009 | I heard Lucy Grealy talk about her book "Autobiography of a Face" on NPR, and later read a New York Magazine article by Ann Patchett about Lucy's descent into drugs (which killed her). This book is a much expanded version of that article, detailing the writers' long friendship dating back to college. Grealy did not have an easy life and could be irresponsible, needy, selfish and narcissistic, but Patchett was always there for her. ( ) ennie | May 24, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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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 Grealy's critically acclaimed memior, 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. This is a portrait of unwavering commitment that spans twenty years, from the long 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.
This is a tender, brutal book about loving the person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who knew how to live life to the fullest.
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