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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 A
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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Reviews:
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A THOUSAND BEAUTIES
is a richly depicted, character driven novel of two people caught in an
endless and dangerous dance of obsessive, addictive love. Illuminated
by the search for 'a thousand beauties" and its lyrical writing,
A THOUSAND BEAUTIES propels the reader on a journey filled with both hope
and despair as the main character searches desperately for a way to bring
peace and beauty to his dying ex-wife. The tumultuous climax will leave
you wondering whether or not Rupert did the "right thing", the
"wrong thing " thing or the only thing.
R
Pierce
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