Plastic Surgery Gone Wrong [Mass Market Paperback]

Melanie Jones (Author)

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Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Altitude Publishing (Oct 1 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1554395054
ISBN-13: 978-1554395057
Product Dimensions: 17.1 x 10.2 x 1.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 136 g

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Did you know that Americans spent just under $12.5 billion and Canadians $5 billion on cosmetic procedures in 2004? Or that family doctors and even dentists have been performing major plastic surgery with serious consequences? Did you know that is one of the riskiest cosmetic procedures?

About the Author

Melanie Jones is a freelance author and editor. She worked as Editor of WHERE Magazine for three years, and was a freelance dance writer for several years before that. She performed as a contemporary dancer for sever years, and an actor for five. She holds a Masters degree in Dance from York University in Toronto and a Bachelor's degree in Dance from the University of Calgary. She is also a marathon runner, and will be competing in the Boston Marathon in 2006.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great work of Canadian fiction, Feb 7 2006

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It is a rare thing these days to come across a work of Canadian fiction that exhibits such passion, intelligence, and incredulity all rolled into one. Plastic Surgery Gone Wrong is an elliptic novel in the Nabokovian (even Pynchonesque) tradition and one must drink it in slowly and deliberately like a fine bottle of North Coast Cabernet. Like some of our best Canadian fiction - Marie-Claire Blais' Mad Shadows, Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, and Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers comes to mind - this is a work of fiction that is at once compelling and terrifying, like getting your fingers caught in the toaster trying to tease the poptart out. Although some have said that Ms. Jones is post-existentialist in her take on the world, I would contend that she imbues the pathos with an underlying sense of joy that flies in the face the terror and emptiness that surrounds us on a daily basis. The main character is truly a reflection of our post-postmodern age: changing names, switching gender, and transforming face and body as seamlessly and effortlessly as a snake changes its skin, this is a person who can fade in and out of any situation in the blink of an eye. There's a little Oedipa Maas here, and yes, even a little Mark Z. Danielewski, but don't go looking for answers. The beauty of Plastic Surgery Gone Wrong is that it doesn't give us answers, only better questions. Although it is comparable to Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters - a novel that explores much the same themes of beauty, identity, addiction, and transformation - it far outstrips it in touching our hearts and minds, which to my mind is a breath of fresh air in the otherwise stagnant and stale locker room of contemporary Canadian fiction. Overall Plastic Surgery Gone Wrong is a good read and a solid work of fiction, but be warned: it is not for the faint-hearted. Ms. Jones is a serious up-and-comer, and I will be watching her next efforts closely - she is the real thing, and I wouldn't be surprised if we see "the great Canadian novel" one day flow forth from her pen. Watch for the upcoming Dating Disasters due in 2006 or 2007, and I hear that she's also working on a fictional memoir of Dave Bronconnier, Calgary's mayor, told from the point of view of his '73 Buick.

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