Sara's Face
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Fame, beauty, and face transplants
Sara wants to be famous, and when legendary rock star Jonathon Heat offers to take her under his wing and pay for her cosmetic surgery, it's like a dream come true. But beauty comes with a hidden price tag. Is Sara willing to pay?
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If you want to be a work of art, you have to suffer a bit," says 17-year-old Sara Carter. Sara suffers more than a bit in Burgess's (Smack; Doing It) terrifying thriller/morality play, in which she gets the spotlight. Obsessed with both stardom and physical perfection, Sara is also accident-prone, and a face-down encounter with a hot iron seems to put a permanent red mark on her quest for fame. Enter Jonathon Heat, billionaire pop star who endlessly reinvents himself, with the help of controversial plastic surgeon Dr. Kaye. Burgess draws a chilling parallel between over-the-hill icon Jonathon Heat and Michael Jackson, in Heat's attempts to look young, and in setting up a bedroom for Sara on his posh, sprawling estate. Heat shows Sara his face (which he hides under a mask), reduced to shreds after so much surgery. Bernadette, a savvy and kind nurse, and Sara's boyfriend, Mark, provide intermittent reality checks for the outlandish situation. Sara soon begins to see apparitions of a girl with no face, and Sara and Mark discover a locked room giving off the smell of rotting meat. Burgess tells the story through the narrative of a novelist-turned investigative journalist, alternating with transcripts of Sara's video diaries (in one spine-tingling scene, she corners the "ghost," with echoes of The Blair Witch Project). Burgess wraps his message about vanity and celebrity-obsessed culture in a nightmarish, unforgettable story. Ages 12-up.
Customer Reviews
The Book That Had Me Wondering
In 2009, an injury had side-lined me in gym class, and during those periods I went to the library. I picked this book up, enticed by the name and cover art. I got about halfway through before someone actually took the book out, and it was never returned to the library. For years I have thought of that book and wondered how it ended. As my free time lessened I stopped reading as much, and nearly put this book out of my mind. Now, in 2015, the book popped back into my head, and I obsessively searched online for it, only remembering little details. Ecstatic when I found it, I read this book cover to cover in 3 days, and can honestly say that it was amazing. I thank my younger self for picking it up, because while it may have been a bit mature for me then, my 6-years-later self could not put down this beautifully written and well-crafted novel.
Great book, from a better writter
I may be a bit bias, being that he is my favorite writer but this book keeps you on the edge of your sweet dreaming of what's on the other page. The mindset the writer brings you into is breathtaking and no mater what happens in the book the saddest part is when it's over. First read or forth this book will always leave you speechless.