Kandel autobiography of a face

Kandel defines art as unconscious and subjective and endeavors to present a reductive and objective rendering of it.

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  • Austrian-born American neurobiologist who, with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2000.
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    Autobiography of a Face

    Memoir by Lucy Grealy

    AuthorLucy Grealy
    LanguageEnglish
    GenreAutobiography/ Memoir
    Published1994
    PublisherHarper Collins
    Publication placeUnited States
    ISBN978-0-544-83739-3

    Autobiography of a Face is a memoir by Lucy Grealy in which she narrates her life before and after being diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma.

    The memoir describes her life from the age of nine to adulthood. In this memoir, she narrates the consequences of the disease in her emotional life as well as the physical implications that it had on her face, which resulted in a lifetime of self-consciousness.

    When interviewed about the memoir in 1994 by Charley Rose, the author explained that the book's principal theme was identity.[citation needed]

    The memoir first began as an essay, entitled Mirrorings, she was commissioned to write for an anthology.

    Prior to its publication in the anthology Grealy sold the essay to Harper's Magazine w