Beauty - Softcover

D'Amato, Brian

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ISBN 10: 0440212820 ISBN 13: 9780440212829

Publisher: Island Books, 1993

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"People will do absolutley anything for youth. . .if they can risk horrible infections with face-lifts, and worse things from liposuction, then they can accept the risk of a little plastic." Ex Yale pre-med Jamie Angelo is part artist and part alchemist. His work is a modern miracle of computer imaging and scientific engineering. A technique light-years beyond medicine. A creation so revolutionary the world must never know. He can reimagine and reinvent you as he transforms your old, unlovley flesh into a masterpiece of ageless beauty. He is not God. But he is close. To ambitious downtown performance artist Jaishree Manglai--about to become his most radical experiment--Jamie is the ultimate fantasy. . .a dark erotic obsession that knows no bounds. . .a master illusionist who turns every woman's shattered hope for the few who can choose to wear beauty's monstrous-and deadly-face. . .

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"When a wrtier's voice is as compelling as Brian D'Amato's, you have to follow him no matter where he's going. . .It's also satisfying, I mean really satisfying, to read a novel so bristling and humming with intelligence."--Peter Straub

About the Author:

Brian D Amato is an artist whose sculptures and installations have been shown in galleries and museums all over the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Wexner Center for the Arts, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1992, he co-organized a show at the Jack Tilton Gallery in New York that was the first gallery show to explore the then-new medium of virtual reality, the same year that his debut novel "Beauty" was published.

Will Collyer is a film, television, and stage actor. He has starred in television shows such as "Melrose Place", "Charmed", "CSI: Miami", and "Boston Public", as well as numerous films and plays. He holds a BA in theater arts from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.

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