Confessions of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon - Softcover

Cap Lesesne

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9780007229338: Confessions of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 000722933X ISBN 13: 9780007229338

Publisher: HarperCollins Entertainment, 2007

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About the Author:

Cap Lesesne has been in solo practice at New York's most sought-after zip-code for over twenty years, and is an indespensible member of the New York social-elite. He is internationally renowned, regularly travelling across the globe for consultations, surgical procedures, and for pleasure. He has served on the executive committee of the American Society of Plastic surgeons, and is a frequent contributor and consultant for The New York Times, The Washington Times, the Observer, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Harper's and Vogue, as well as ABC and NBC News. A documentary produced by the BBC following the life of Cap Lesesne was aired in the US in the autumn of 2005, and he is frequently profiled in some of America's most glamorous publications. He has produced his own line of custom-made skin-care products, soon to be launched in the UK.

From Publishers Weekly:

You needn't be contemplating cosmetic surgery to be entertained by Lesesne's blend of name-dropping, horn-tooting, medical advice and insights. After more than 20 years of operating mostly on the rich and famous, he has plenty of stories. Among his more memorable patients are a gay man who wants breast implants on his back to give his partner something to hold onto during sex and the straight man who brought in his wife one day and his girlfriend the next. Lesesne also writes of receiving death threats from a Venezuelan oil magnate whose penis turned black after waist and hip liposuction (he failed to follow the doctor's post-op orders). Those details, along with gossip (including Lesesne's short-lived romance with Katie Couric), provide the juiciest bits of what sometimes reads more like an infomercial than a memoir. A recollection about a Frenchwoman morphs into a plug for the author's skin-care line; an anecdote about a woman who asks him out while on the operating table leads to a plug for a "light anesthesia cocktail" he and his anesthesiologist developed. You don't reach the pinnacle of plastic surgery success by downplaying your strengths, but Lesesne's book would have been even more appealing if he had performed a little ego-reduction surgery. (Oct.)
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