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True-life fable of friendship comes with a touching moral.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Deborah King
"Truth and Beauty" by Ann Patchett; HarperCollins ($23.95)
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In the memoir "Truth and Beauty," novelist Ann Patchett tells the story of her 20-year friendship with fellow writer Lucy Grealy, a larger-than-life personality with larger-than-life problems. In 1994, Grealy's own memoir, "Autobiography of a Face," chronicled a childhood defined by cancer and an adolescence filled with never-ending facial reconstruction after she lost much of her jaw to Ewing's sarcoma. Patchett's first work of nonfiction picks up where Grealy left off, telling the story of the two women's relationship, beginning in college and ending with ...
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