What Beauty (Paperback)

Noted author Mark Beyer, along with Siren & Muse Publishing, bring you a story about obsession, identity, and art. Minus Orth walks dogs for a living and sculpts for his life. He's ready to create a unique sculpture cycle - Mythical Gods in Their Twilight. Meanwhile, he has a girlfriend, Belinda, who's itching to get married. His friend, Peter N, has reaped artistic success that's both inspirational and a thorn. He plays poker with a quartet of exiled aristocrats. And at Minus's art co-op, the residents live on the fringe of society. One day Minus crosses paths with Karen Kosek, best remembered as a culture critic of the 1960s. Karen dropped out of sight years ago. Now she dresses as a bag lady - ragged clothes, a garbage smell, and bulging plastic bags she carries as if they hold the secrets to the good life. Minus orchestrates a tenuous relationship with Karen, and discovers in her a woman who has not been trampled underfoot, but is burrowed deeper in society's crust than anyone could imagine. Thus begins an odyssey in which Minus becomes obsessed with Karen's past and present, obsessed with creating his sculpture cycle, and with the role artists play in society's split personality. "Do you have what it takes to make something beautiful?" is a question that comes to the minds of many characters in this story. Their answers are hilarious, confused, self-delusional, virtuous, or simply truthful, because the people who create beauty are different from those who value beauty, and far afield from the powers able to help it flourish ... or destroy it. "I want to read this book. I must read this book." - Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Minus Orth's "eccentricities ... make him the iconoclast he is intended to be." - Publishers Weekly

General

Imprint:	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2012
First published:	April 2012
Authors:	Mark Beyer
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	402
ISBN-13:	978-1-4700-3383-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-4700-3383-6
Barcode:	9781470033835

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