Lift: Wanting, Fearing, and Having a Face-Lift Book

An award-winning journalist recounts her own dramatic decision to have cosmetic surgery--and helps readers considering a face-lift make their decision wisely and safely. The most respected journalist in the field of cosmetic surgery today, Joan Kron leads readers through the face-lift process--from initial deliberation to finished result. Lift addresses the issues of identity, vanity, and economics, answers questions about how to choose a doctor and where to have the procedure done, and reveals the latest information about new techniques. Drawing on dozens of real cases, interviews with doctors and nurses, historical data, and her many years of frontline reporting, Kron delivers the whole story behind facial reconstructive surgery--not just what's in the news or the gossip columns. Arming readers with the right information, questions, and approaches, Lift is an invaluable resource for anyone contemplating changing their life by changing their appearance."Witty, informative, smartly written and unflinching in its details."-- The New York TimesA portion of the author's royalties is being donated to the National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction to subsidize psychological counseling for individuals with facial conditions.Read More