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A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can’t distinguish burden from embrace.” — People

New York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett’s first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.

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 Gealy''s critically acclaimed and hugely successful 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 & Beauty, the story isn''t Lucy''s life or Ann''s life, but the parts of their lives they shared together. This is a portra

Truth Beauty

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    A Paperback / softback by Ann Patchett

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      Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
      Published 5 April 2005
      ISBN-13 9780060572150
      978-0060572150
      ISBN-10 0060572159

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      Book Synopsis

      A loving testament to the work and reward of the best friendships, the kind where your arms can’t distinguish burden from embrace.” — People

      New York Times Bestselling author Ann Patchett’s first work of nonfiction chronicling her decades-long friendship with the critically acclaimed and recently deceased author, Lucy Grealy.

      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 Gealy''s critically acclaimed and hugely successful 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 & Beauty, the story isn''t Lucy''s life or Ann''s life, but the parts of their lives they shared together. This is a portra

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