Bestselling author and Orange Prize winner Ann Patchett's first
work of non-fiction is a searing, emotionally wrenching account of
her long friendship with the critically acclaimed, and recently
deceased author, Lucy Grealy. 'It is remarkable for me to remember
now that I thought it would be possible to walk away from her, that
she might have gone on living, but without me. I know now I never
would have had the strength of my convictions. I am living in a
world without Lucy. I have no choice about that. If she were alive
and I had that choice, I wouldn't have been able to last without
her for a day.' What happens when the person who is your family is
someone you aren't bound to by blood? What happens when the person
you promise to love and to honour for the rest of your life is not
your lover, but your best friend? In her frank and startlingly
intimate first work of nonfiction, Truth & Beauty, Ann Patchett
shines light on the little explored world of women's friendships
and shows us what it means to stand together. the Iowa Writer's
Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of
their lives as their work. In her critically acclaimed and hugely
successful memoir, Autobiography of a Face, Lucy Grealy wrote about
the first half of her life: losing part of her jaw to childhood
cancer, the years of chemotherapy and radiation, and then the
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. This is a tender, yet sometimes brutal book
about loving the person we cannot save. It is about loyalty, and
about being lifted up by the sheer effervescence of someone who
knew how to live life to the fullest
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