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Marked for Life : A Story of Disguise, Discovery and Redemption by Joie Davidow (2003, Hardcover)

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Attractive and successful, Joie Davidow presents a confident face to the world. But her carefully applied makeup conceals a secret she has kept for decades. She was born with a port-wine stain, a purple mark that covers most of the left side of her face, including her eye.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCrown Publishing Group, T.H.E.

ISBN-101400047412

ISBN-139781400047413

eBay Product ID (ePID)2399618

Product Key Features

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMarked for Life : a Story of Disguise, Discovery and Redemption

Publication Year2003

SubjectDermatology, General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, Medical

AuthorJoie Davidow

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight14.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-153963

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal362.1/9699313/0092 B

SynopsisBorn with a port wine stain that covered the left side of her face, Davidow grew up longing to be free of the mark. "Marked for Life" chronicles her struggle to overcome the feeling that she was grotesquely flawed. Devoid of self-pity, it will touch anyone who has ever felt ''different'U from the rest of the world., Attractive and successful, Joie Davidow presents a confident face to the world. But her carefully applied makeup conceals a secret she has kept for decades. She was born with a port-wine stain, a purple mark that covers most of the left side of her face, including her eye. Tormented as a child, shunned as a teenager, she thought of herself as deformed and ugly until, in her second year of college, she discovered cosmetics that would allow her to hide the mark on her face. She learned to paint on a mask that made her appear normal, if not downright beautiful. Suddenly she was no longer "the girl with the big purple mark." Behind the mask she was safe, protected from the astonished eyes and unkind remarks of strangers. Her deception was her freedom, but it was also her imprisonment, a threat that never left her. For most of her life she feared that a hot, humid day, a strong wind, an errant tear, or even a fervent embrace would destroy the face she had so painstakingly created, revealing her shameful secret. While hiding behind the mask, she became a newspaper editor, then a magazine publisher. She sat front and center at runway shows in Paris, London, Milan, and New York. She was an authority on all things glamorous, appearing frequently on television. But alone at night, she washed her face and saw a disfigured woman in the mirror. Marked for Life chronicles Joie's coming of age with a facial difference and a family who tried to deal with the purple mark by denying its existence. It is the story of Joie's search for a man whose love she could trust despite her marked face, and her passion for the man who loved and accepted her. It is the story of how she refused to be defined by the stain that disfigured her and how, finally, she came to realize that, despite being "marked for life," she is really just another face in the crowd, no different from anyone else. Written with honesty, wit, and a true storyteller's gift, this book will resonate with all of us who have at times felt that we, too, were secretly marked and somehow different from the rest of the world.

LC Classification NumberRL793.D38 2003