Sissy spacek autobiography of a fleas
It`s the face of someone who wouldn`t hurt a flea..
Sissy Spacek left the glamour life of Hollywood for a Virginia farm in There she has remained with her husband, production designer Jack Fisk.
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (Harper, $14) and Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett (Harper, $15). These two books are as intertwined as the lives of the women who wrote them.
Grealy, a gifted writer whose face was disfigured by childhood cancer, and Patchett, who would become a famous novelist, met in college and formed a remarkable, heartbreaking friendship. The story of Lucy's struggle is told, so beautifully, from two distinct perspectives.
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee and Walker Evans (Mariner, $18).
As a kid, Sissy Spacek climbed trees, rode horses, swam, and played in the woods.A guidebook to America's Dust Bowl–era soul. Through Evans's brilliant photographs and Agee's evocative prose, you can practically feel and smell and see exactly how it was in those sharecropper shacks, right down to the kind of nails they put in the floorboards.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Grand Central, $8).
Lee's novel is filled with details and characters so familiar to me that, when I first read it, I felt like it was speaking to m