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BEAUTY
Carol MacLean works as a corporate “undertaker” for Baxter Blume, a Mergers & Acquisitions firm in New York. She travels from factory to factory, reluctantly firing blue?collared workers that remind her of the kids she grew up with, in the hope that her boss will make good on his promise—one day, after paying her dues, she will be named CEO of one of the firm’s many holdings.
Just when it seems like her dream will finally come true, on a trip that takes her away from the city to a desperate fishing town in coastal Massachusetts, Carol gets a call from the office: “You’re out.” Those words shake Carol to her core. But with the help of townspeople and a particularly charming local fisherman, Carol begins to understand the power of life’s second acts. She becomes determined to save the factory she almost shut down. As Carol throws herself into transforming a failing company into a commercially viable business, she must choose between the job she has always wanted, and everything else—her savings, her reputation, and her chance at love.
Frederick Dillen’s perceptive and deeply empathetic novel animates one of life’s richest ironies; BEAUTY reminds us, slowly and carefully, that sometimes in pursuing what we think we want, we are often in danger of losing sight of what matters most.
Frederick G. Dillen’s short fiction has appeared in literary quarterlies and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. His first novel, Hero, was named Best First Novel of 1994 by the Dictionary of Literary Biography. His second novel, Fool, was honored by Nancy Pearl as a Book Lust Rediscoveries section in 2012.
Frederick Dillen’s perceptive and deeply empathetic novel animates one of life’s richest ironies; BEAUTY reminds us, slowly and carefully, that sometimes in pursuing what we think we want, we are often in danger of losing sight of what matters most.
Frederick G. Dillen’s short fiction has appeared in literary quarterlies and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. His first novel, Hero, was named Best First Novel of 1994 by the Dictionary of Literary Biography. His second novel, Fool, was honored by Nancy Pearl as a Book Lust Rediscoveries section in 2012.
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Published 2014-03-01 by Simon & Schuster |
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Published 2014-03-01 by Simon & Schuster |