Beauty

Bram Stoker Award: First Novel nominee (1993).

"People will do absolutely anything for youth... if they can risk horrible infections with face-lifts, and worse things from liposuction, then they can accept the risk of a little plastic."

Ex Yale pre-med Jamie Angelo is part artist and part alchemist. His work is a modern miracle of computer imaging and scientific engineering. A technique light-years beyond medicine. A creation so revolutionary the world must never know. He can reimagine and reinvent you as he transforms your old, unlovely flesh into a masterpiece of ageless beauty. He is not God. But he is close. To ambitious downtown performance artist Jaishree Manglai – about to become his most radical experiment – Jamie is the ultimate fantasy... a dark erotic obsession that knows no bounds... a master illusionist  who turns every woman's shattered hope for the few who can choose to wear beauty's monstrous – and deadly – face...