Brian d amato biography of albert

Entry updated 12 September Tagged: Author.

(    ) US sculptor, painter and author, son of Barbara D'Amato (    ) and Anthony D'Amato (), both writers; his essay on L Frank Baum's Oz, "The Wooden Gargoyles: Evil in Oz" – which was published as an afterword to his mother's mystery novel, Hard Road: A Cat Marsala Mystery () – sharply but sympathetically examines some of the darker implications of Baum's work.

D'Amato's first novel, Beauty (), grippingly narrates its narrator's seductive but obsessional need to control – to immortalize – his own physical appearance and the "beauty" of three women through plastic surgery, in the end utterly redesigning the face of his lover through the use of an artificial skin compound called PCS 10, and Computer imaging which, along with other technologies cited here, have become realities.

His lover is now a beauty in the style of quattrocento paintings, but caught in the coi