Beauty, Brian DAmato
Beauty, Brian DAmato
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Beauty

Author: Brian D'Amato

Narrator: Will Collyer

Unabridged: 12 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/12/2013

Synopsis

Jamie Angelo is part artist and part alchemist. His plastic surgery techniques are light-years beyond modern medicine. He can transform a haggard face into a masterpiece of ageless beauty. He is not God. But he is close.

To ambitious models like Jaishree Manglani, Jamie is the ultimate fantasy-a master illusionist who can turn her dream of eternal youth into reality. Until the truth about Jami's "art" and "science" is revealed, and a nightmare ensues. Because if there's no such thing as perfect beauty, Manhattan's king of beauty might just be the gatekeeper of something other than human.

About Brian D'Amato

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. He has written for such magazines as Harper's Bazaar, Index, Vogue, and Flash Art, and he has taught art and art history at CUNY, the Ohio State University, and Yale. His first novel, Beauty, which Dean Koontz called "the best first novel I have read in a decade," was an international bestseller.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alex on November 29, 2019

One of my all-time three favourite books, just soooooo amazing. The blurb makes it sound a little like a horror novel, and it is in a way, but it's so much more than that.......more

Goodreads review by Lou on March 15, 2013

This story has a captivating and engrossing will also elements of the haunting and scary on beauty that would have you either reconsider facial surgery, for cosmetic reasons, or run to the phone to book an op. I love thew way the author has sculptured this main character a lover of beauty and an art......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on October 22, 2012

A creepy, pretentious, narcissistic artist/unlicensed plastic surgeon tries to create the perfectly beautiful woman. I don't think it's spoilery to say that he gets what's coming to him. A satire of American beauty culture, the 80s art scene in New York, misogyny, and the lifestyles of the idle rich......more

Goodreads review by Amy on February 28, 2013

A very interesting book, this story comes out of the blue and offers the reader something they didn’t expect. Although books have been written about the egotistical ‘jet set’ before, D’Amato sets his tale apart by not only offering action, suspense and a little gore, but also provides a very scary l......more

Goodreads review by Helena on July 28, 2024

A beleza vem de dentro e os rostos são apenas máscaras que não importam? Hummm... Jamie Angelo discorda. Um "Frankenstein" dos anos 90, sendo que desta vez o protagonista Jamie Angelo é o criador da mulher que idealizou como sendo perfeita com a vontade e a soberba de dar ao mundo uma obra de arte h......more

Quotes

"From its daringly abstract opening page, BEAUTY establishes a strikingly original mood and voice that never falters through the final sentence ... chapter by chapter there is a growing sense of dread that is absolutely irrestistible ... at the same time, BEAUTY is often darkly hilarious, as darly comic as any book I've ever read. The best first novel I've read in a decade."—Dean Koontz

"I've never read anything like BEAUTY before ... It's almost breathtakingly self-assured, and this confidence, which is a matter of an absolutely candid, knowing voice, takes us almost immediately into the novel's world ... When a writer'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

"Wonderfully fresh ... superb ... Anyone who had a visceral reaction to Psycho may experience a similar feeling on reading this."—Chicago Sun-Times

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