Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
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| Author | Ann Patchett |
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| Audio read by | Ann Patchett |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date | May 2004 |
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| Pages | 272 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-0-06-057214-3 (First edition hardcover) |
| OCLC | 53932670 |
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship is a memoir by Ann Patchett. First published in 2004 by Harper Perennial the memoir focuses on Patchett's 18 year friendship with memoirist Lucy Grealy which began when they were 21.
The book was published just 18 months after Grealy's death and her family was publicly opposed to Patchett's memoir which included excerpts from private letters Grealy wrote Patchett as well as depicting Grealy's open attitude towards sex, an abortion, and her heroin use.
The memoir has been suggested as a companion work to Grealy's own memoir Autobiography of a Face as much of it covers the years directly after Autobiography of a Face ended including Grealy's abrupt rise to fame and her descent into addiction. Patchett herself stated that one of her intentions in writing the work was to continue to draw attention and interest to Autobiography of a Face.