Mark Beyer
Paperback | Pages: 400 pages Rating: 4 | 3 Users | 1 review Reviews
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| Title | : | What Beauty |
| Author | : | Mark Beyer |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 400 pages |
| Published | : | June 15th 2012 by Siren & Muse Publishing (first published May 13th 2012) |
| Categories | : | Download Books. Free Books |
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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.
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| ISBN: | 1470033836 (ISBN13: 9781470033835) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Regarding Books What Beauty
Ratings: 4 From 3 Users | 1 review ReviewsAppraise Regarding Books What Beauty
This novel is a bold statement about how we see the world and how that world is something other than "truth" or "real." All the real that's in our world comes from pre-conceived notions, experience, and after-thought; whatever friends, lovers, or media tells us is chaff. Maybe.I wrote this book with the idea in mind that art and love are intertwined to the degree we put ourselves into their spheres of influence. The world of art is ours, or it is discounted; there is no middle ground. So too theThis novel is a bold statement about how we see the world and how that world is something other than "truth" or "real." All the real that's in our world comes from pre-conceived notions, experience, and after-thought; whatever friends, lovers, or media tells us is chaff. Maybe.I wrote this book with the idea in mind that art and love are intertwined to the degree we put ourselves into their spheres of influence. The world of art is ours, or it is discounted; there is no middle ground. So too the
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