Beauty Plus PityArsenal Pulp Press, Jan 1, 2011 Review "This unassuming, well-written novel is quiet in every way—subtly entertaining, poignant, and funny." —Publishers Weekly "A novel of heartbreak and humor, Beauty Plus Pity is written with an energy and humanity few novels possess. Kevin Chong is an extraordinary writer who is at the top of his game." —Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo "Funny and devastating. Chong is a melange of Bukowski and Woody Allen." —Rawi Hage, author of De Niro's Game and Cockroach "Beauty plus pity—that is the closest we can get to a definition of art." In this tragicomic, modern immigrant's tale, Malcolm Kwan is a twentysomething Asian American embarking on a modeling career whose life is derailed when his father dies and his fiancée leaves him. When he meets the half-sister he never knew existed—the result of his father's extramarital affair—he must work through his lifelong ambivalence as one trapped between two cultures and between two parents holding intolerable secrets. Kevin Chong is the author of the novel Baroque-a-Nova (Plume) and the memoir Neil Young Nation (Greystone Books). |
