num_pages: 257
description: Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Grealy’s critically acclaimed 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 and 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.
language: English
title: Truth & Beauty
titlecomplete: Truth & Beauty
characters: Ann Patchett, Lucy Grealy
genres: Audiobook, Book Club, Biography, Womens, Adult, Autobiography, Nonfiction, Writing, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 41729
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Harper Perennial