Gorgeous
by Paul Rudnick
Buy on AmazonWhen eighteen-year-old Becky Randle's mother dies, she is whisked away from a trailer park to New York City, where fashion designer Tom Kelly offers to transform her into a glamorous Rebecca, a girl fit for a prince--but soon she begins to fear that she will lose touch with her real self. When her mother dies, 18-year-old Becky is whisked from a trailer park to New York City, where designer Tom Kelly offers to transform her into a glamorous Rebecca, a girl fit for a prince. The plot contains profanity, sexual references, and violence.
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"As a writer who knows just how much sweat goes into making even a single joke flow from the page, I can only step back in admiration when someone writes an entire book that makes me laugh my head off. Gorgeous is bizarre, improbable and utterly hilarious, which Paul Rudnick pulls off with the did-he-really-do-that? flair of one of the designer dresses lovingly strewn across these pages. And yet, even choking on various warm beverages did not prevent me from rooting for Becky Randle, who discovers that magically becoming the most beautiful girl in the world doesn’t fix her life after all."
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