“People will do absolutely 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, unlovely 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. . .
Beauty – Brian D’Amato
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A creepy, pretentious, narcissistic artist and part time alchemist tries to create the perfectly beautiful woman. A dark gloomy insight into the american beauty culture. Set in the 80s art scene of New York, the novel tells the story of the narrator Jamie Angelo who is quite a psychotic man, and his vanity-filled journey of finding flawless beauty. I didn’t really like the book, it was a little to eerie and strange for me, the narrator also came across quite racist and vulgar. Majority of the story’s content was outdated and hard to relate to/understand. The book was also not uplifting at all, but somehow I continued reading simply because I was itching to find out what happened, wether he did construct the ‘perfect’ face in the end. However the novel did present some interesting concepts of our perceptions of beauty, and how beauty trends have evolved with history. I don’t recommend the book as after reading it I felt glum and it was quite boring to read. It is a 2.5 stars for me.
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