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Wasted Beauty

By: Eric Bogosian
Narrated by: Eric Bogosian
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 With his dark wit and corrosive dialogue, Eric Bogosian tells a powerful story of two lovers who form a mesmerizing and destructive bond while trying to evade the looming failure of their respective lives.

Reba runs away from her desolate rural community for the lure of New York City. Her tall and awkward frame lands her work modeling, but she is not prepared for the glamorous, drug-fueled life of a celebrated mannequin. After a series of painful relationships, she sees hope and an exit toward stability in the man who saves her brother's life.

That man is Rick, a successful SoHo general practitioner with an idyllic life that has left him discontented. He doesn't take Reba seriously at first, but soon finds himself so enmeshed in her beauty that he risks losing everything: his home, his children, and his beloved wife.

Wasted Beauty is master monologist Bogosian's enthralling journey through the high life of drugs, fashion celebrity, middle-class guilt, and sexual obsession.

©2005 Eric Bogosian (P)2005 Audible, Inc. Literature & Fiction
About the Creator - Eric Bogosian

About the Creator

Eric Bogosian has a notable career both on and off Broadway and on screen while establishing himself as a prolific author. For Drinking in America, he received the Drama Desk Award as well as an Obie. His play Talk Radio (in which he starred, and which was produced on Broadway with Liev Schreiber in 2007) was adapted to film by director Oliver Stone. For writing and starring in the film Talk Radio, Bogosian received the Berlin Silver Bear for achievement in 1989. He is the author of numerous plays, including suburbia (Lincoln Center Theater, 1994), film adaptations of his work, and three novels: Mall, Wasted Beauty and Perforated Heart. In 2015 Little, Brown published Bogosian's Operation Nemesis, a non-fiction account of the death squad that avenged the Armenian Genocide. More recently, Bogosian has been featured in the television series Billions, Succession, and in 2022, AMC's Interview with the Vampire. In 2019 he starred in the Safdie Brothers' celebrated Uncut Gems alongside Adam Sandler. His website, 100monologues.com, features notable actors performing his monologues. Bogosian lives in New York City with his wife, Director Jo Bonney.
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"A well-crafted novel that's also a vicarious walk on the wild side....It's a great guilty pleasure of a story line (brainy schlump meets gorgeous goddess), and Bogosian fills it with fresh, frank turns of phrase." (Publishers Weekly)

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