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With his dark wit and corrosive dialogue,
Eric Bogosian tells a powerful and emotionally wrenching tale
of two lovers who form a mesmerizing and destructive bond
while trying to evade the looming failure of their respective
lives.
Reba runs away from her shabby and desolate
rural community for the lure of New York City. Her tall and
awkward frame lands her work modeling, but she is not prepared
for the glamorous, drug-fueled life of a celebrated mannequin.
After a series of painful relationships, she sees hope and
an exit toward stability and sanity in the man who saves her
brother's life.
This man is Rick, a successful SoHo general
practitioner with a warm family and an idyllic life that has
left him restless and hollow. He doesn't take Reba seriously
until he finds himself so enmeshed in her beauty that he risks
losing everything--his home, his children and his beloved
wife.
Now this master monologist and author
of the acclaimed Mall returns with a sprawling novel
of urban desperation and desire that brings to mind the winding
narratives of Tom Wolfe salted with the dark urges of Philip
Roth. The New York Times hailed Eric Bogosian's fiction
as "caustic, fast-paced....Adapting himself to fiction with...the
same garrulous intensity he brings to plays and monologues,
Mr. Bogosian sets in motion a suburban nightmare." And Entertainment
Weekly has lauded his "merciless satirical vision (that)
takes you deep into the dark heart of the American dream."
Wasted Beauty is Bogosian's enthralling
journey through the high life of drugs and fashion celebrity,
middle-class guilt and sexual obsession.
Eric Bogosian is the author of Mall,
the plays Talk Radio, subUrbia and Griller,
and the Obie Award-winning solo performances Drinking in
America, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead
and Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll. He is the recipient of
the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award, a Drama Desk Award,
and two NEA fellowships. An actor who has appeared in more
than a dozen feature films and television shows, Bogosian
lives in New York City.
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