Divine Concepts of Physical Beauty - Hardcover

Michael Bracewell

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9780436065965: Divine Concepts of Physical Beauty

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436065967 ISBN 13: 9780436065965

Publisher: Secker & Warburg, 1989

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A story of five young people, beginning with their childhood roots in the county towns of Berkshire in the early 1970s. Later in life they come together again in London, a little older but still insulated by their class and inability to grow up.

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Hanging from a ceiling hook, her body painted gold from head to toe, performance artist Kelly O'Kelly takes death-defying risks. But her high-flying act will bring tragedy crashing down on her complacent boyfriend Miles Harrier, who toys with her affections, and on Lucinda Fortune, the incurable romantic Miles beds. Set in London and its affluent suburbs, this mordant comedy of manners is also an exquisite, if overripe, meditation on physical beauty and love. Miles's third flame and eventual fiancee, a fashion model named Stella, is terrified of sex. Caught between love and lust, Miles becomes "a voyeur of his own love affair." Intertwined with these goings-on is the story of a homosexual couple's breakup and the senseless, violent revenge the younger man takes on his lover. Writing like a metaphysical poet, with rapier shafts of irony and wit, Bracewell ( The Crypto-Amnesia Club ) depicts lives built on illusions, then redirected by false hopes or assumptions.
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