Full name: Truth & Beauty: A Friendship

Author: Ann Patchett Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Award winners Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060572150 0060572159

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. Similar books: Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness Still Waters by Jennifer Lauck Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden Blackbird by Jennifer Lauck My Mother Was Nuts by Penny Marshall I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This by Nadja Spiegelman Let Me Finish by Roger Angell What Remains by Carole Radziwill Elsewhere by Richard Russo My Own Two Feet by Beverly Cleary Myself When Young by Daphne Du Maurier Then Again by Diane Keaton Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy In the Wilderness by Kim Barnes Cheerful Money by Tad Friend The Liars' Club by Mary Karr Another Forgotten Child by Cathy Glass Borrowed Time by Paul Monette Amateur Night at the Bubblegum Kittikat by Victoria Fedden Trials of the Earth by Mary Mann Hamilton