Mark Adam Kaplan

Mark Adam Kaplan was born in Staten Island, New York. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Michigan and received a Master's of Fine Arts from The American Film Institute's Center for Film and Television Studies (AFI). His film credits include Hong Se Lian Ren (A Time to Remember, 1998) and Echoes of the East: Tibet (1997). Kaplan's plays have been staged in New York, Los Angeles and Seattle. He currently lives in Diamond Bar, CA with his wife and two daughters. A Thousand Beauties is his first novel.

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A Thousand Beauties

Out Now

Overweight and jaded, rich and lonely, Rupert Ruskin clings to an obsessive belief that if he can witness a thousand beautiful sights in a single day, his shattered and sordid existence will turn to bliss.

But his dreamquest for The Thousand Beauties is stalled when beloved and eccentric ex wife, Elaine, bursts back into his life with disturbing news.

Ruskin now has to make room for a more immediate and secret plan ... but should it be for a wedding or a funeral?

Mark Adam Kaplan navigates the peaks and troughs of co-dependency and mutual punishment in a magnificently spun story of love and loathing. His urgent, yet poetic prose trap the reader like a spider traps a fly in an intricate web both beautiful and deadly.

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