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Fame, beauty, and face transplants
Sara wants to be famous, and when legendary rock star Jonathon Heat offers to take her under his wing and pay for her cosmetic surgery, it's like a dream come true. But beauty comes with a hidden price tag. Is Sara willing to pay?
- Sales Rank: #2204095 in eBooks
- Published on: 2008-06-17
- Released on: 2008-06-17
- Format: Kindle eBook
From School Library Journal
Grade 9 Up—Seventeen-year-old Sara wants to be spectacular. Not just pretty, not just popular, but spectacularly famous. She is a borderline anorexic, purposely hurts herself, often adopts different personalities, emits her own special perfume smell, and sees ghosts, among other things. When pop idol Jonathon Heat takes her under his wing, she crosses into a world of lunacy and cosmetic surgery to reach her goals. An eerie Michael Jackson-esque figure, Heat lives on a wacky estate with a private plastic surgery theater and has undergone so many facial reconstructions that he's forced to cover his pieced-together face with a mask. After Sara moves into his compound, readers are led to believe that she will meet the same fate, or worse. Known for edgy, raw teen novels that pull no punches, Burgess certainly delivers his trademark sexual frankness, folding in the issues of body image, self-mutilation, and personality disorder. Unfortunately, he chooses to use a narrator, an investigative reporter of sorts, who attempts to piece together Sara's story through a series of interviews and video diaries. A unique concept in itself, the result is a clunky story, rife with clichés and indistinct character voices. Readers will undoubtedly find themselves wishing for a twist or a turn rather than a string of obvious allusions. This modern horror story touches on many contemporary issues and could spark discussion, but the unknowable protagonist and scattered storytelling ultimately serve to distance readers rather than engage them.—Jill Heritage Maza, Greenwich High School, CT
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From Booklist
Jonathon Heat is a fabulously wealthy rock superstar whose unhealthy penchant for plastic surgery has left him without a face (which would explain the mask he always wears). Teenage Sara is a pretty young thing who unreasoningly hates her own face and body. When these two meet in hospital, each recognizes possibilities in the other. Heat will pay for Sara's desired plastic surgery; and Sara has a—well, a face. Could Heat be planning to steal it? He does have a plastic surgeon on his staff. Hmmm. Burgess tells his rather silly but often spooky story from a Citizen Kane–like multiplicity of viewpoints, including Sara's video diary and—in a metafictional touch—his own as the novelist who has been commissioned to tell Sara's cautionary story. Pop culture echoes of Michael Jackson, American Idol, Phantom of the Opera, and even daytime dramas reverberate throughout the creaky, yet suspenseful story. Celebrity-loving teens will gobble it up. Cart, Michael
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Review
"Vanity and celebrity-obsessed culture in a nightmarish, unforgettable story." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Enchanting Review: Sara's Face
By Enchanting Reviews
SARA'S FACE
MELVIN BURGESS
Contemporary YA
Simon Pulse
Rating: 2 Enchantments
Jonathon Heat has nearly everything--fame, millions of fans, success, and money. Unfortunately, he no longer has the one thing he craves most--beauty. Years of experimental cosmetic surgery, and all for fame, have caused his face to collapse, leaving disgusting strips of rotting flesh. Now, he hides behind a mask and waits, hoping his cosmetic surgeon Dr. Kaye will find a way to restore his beauty.
Sara is an elusive and mysterious girl, known by few and truly understood by no one, not ever herself. She is obsessed with beauty and convinced that she is never pretty enough, skinny enough--perfect enough. This fixation leads her to idolize the rock star Jonathon Heat. In him she sees a kindred spirit. Unfortunately, this can't be a good thing if Jonathon Heat is as cunning, imaginative, ambitious, and unreliable as Sara is.
Sara's big break comes when she meets Jonathon Heat after an "accident" scars her face and leaves her in the hospital. The aging rock star recognizes Sara as beautiful--and offers to pay for the cosmetic surgery she yearns for. Sara is ecstatic; fame is nearly at her fingertips. But the longer she stays with Jonathon, the more she begins to doubt his pure intentions. She, and the rest of the world it seems, begins to wonder, what really will become of Sara's face?
Don't let the intriguing summary fool you; I was incredibly disappointed in this book. I originally picked it up because it sounded like a unique psychological thriller, but I was less than impressed with the execution of the plot and Burgess' style of writing, which pretty mush ruined my experience with this novel. SARA'S FACE is written almost like an investigation (biography wouldn't be the correct word) of Sara, with interviews with primary sources, transcripts of Sara's video diary, and other published documents. Now, I'm all for innovative writing styles, but the problem was that Burgess didn't totally stick to his format. There were conversations that seemed made up, because it was unlikely a witness would remember it word for word, and accounts of events where only Sara was present, which would be impossible for the author to know because he made it clear that no one knew Sara. The plot was frankly boring most of the time; it felt like I was reading a monotonous textbook. Only at the very end does anything get truly interesting, but by then, I've lost my sympathy for Sara because the preceding events in the story were way too jumbled and confusing. I felt Burgess' message in SARA'S FACE was very weakly conveyed, and I'm sure most readers will miss it, if they even make it to the end. SARA's FACE does provide some food for thought about fame and vanity, but overall, it's just not interesting enough for me to recommend it to anybody.
Melvin Burgess has written many novels, including SMACK, DOING IT, BLOODTIDE, and BLOODSONG. His works have also been adapted for film and television.
Rachael Stein
Enchanting Reviews
November 2008
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Intriguing, eerie, and entertaining story
By Karissa Eckert
This is one odd book. I wasn't exactly sure what I was getting into with this book but it was an interesting premise and an interesting book. I can't even remember why I ordered this book; I think the idea of it intrigued me.
This book has a very slight sci-fi bent to it but mostly it is about what would you give for fame and fortune. Sara is a pretty girl who believes that she is going to be extraordinary one day. She sees beauty as art and is determined to make herself art. She is a disturbed girl who is constantly pretending that she is different people, she also loves hiding her beautiful face behind hideous masks. She often thinks of herself as ugly and feels like when she looks in the mirror that is not her face; it is someone elses. Sara also has bizarre accidents that many of her friends/family think are self-inflicted. It is while she is in the hospital recovering from one of these accidents that she meets Jonathan Heat. Jonathan Heat is a superstar; he had so much work done on his face that his face collapsed and he now wears a mask. In Sara, Jonathan sees a kindred spirit. He offers to take her under his wing to teach her everything he knows, and (the biggest thing to Sara) to pay for cosmetic surgery for Sara's whole body. Of course there will be a price, but could Sara ever guess the cost?
The story is done in an interesting way. The author is acting as a journalist who is trying to recreate the events that lead to the final stages of Heat's and Sarah's working relationship. Some of the chapters dictate a video journal that Sarah kept. Other chapters are interviews with the people surrounding Sarah. Some of the chapters are just chapters reporting the facts that the author has found.
It was an engaging read, and also very disturbing. The story was set up in such a way that you really wondered what was going to happen in the end. You both feel sorry for and despise the tragic figures of Jonathan Heat and Sara. There are a number of side characters that are both very caring, good people and very selfish, evil people. All in all I enjoyed the story and how it was put together. This book made me interested in reading more of Burgess's work.
The story is a mystery that is all about the price you put on being perfect. It is also about people who feel detached from their own bodies and how damaged they can be. There is a bit of sci-fi twist to some of the cosmetic procedures performed and there is a bit of supernatural twist to the story as Sara chases a faceless ghost throughout Heat's mansion. It was an intriguing story and I am glad I read it.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Creepy, clever satire
By J. Shurin
Sara's Face (2006) is an intelligent, disturbing thriller from Melvin Burgess. Burgess is a popular (in the UK) author of young adult fiction, known for refusing to pull his punches. His books, despite their youth audience, deal honestly, openly and often graphically with drugs (Junk), sex (Doing It) and homelessness (Lady). Sara's Face is Burgess's assault on the fame culture of modern, youth society.
The book is constructed in a modern, self-reflective way. An author (alluded to being Burgess himself) is trying to reconstruct the tragic events involving Sara - a young wannabe - and Jonathan Heat - a disturbing and popular A-list musician (a sinister combination of all the Michael Jackson's creepiness with Madonna's business savvy).
The story is told through a series of interviews and transcripts - the latter largely from Sara's video diary. Sara and Jonathan, although they are the book's protagonists, are "not available for comment", so although they are quoted profusely, their throughts and motivations remain secret.
Sara's Face isn't Burgess's finest effort, but it is undeniably gripping - skillfully emulating the un-put-downable quality of the tabloid culture that he's lampooning. Sara is an alternately pathetic and loathesome creature - from her earliest years, she's a devious, driven, eerily adaptable sociopaths that will do anything to succeed. Jonathan Heat is even more horrific - a artist so desperate to prolong his time in the spotlight he's completely and literally sacrificed his own identity. The message isn't subtle - stardom doesn't just require a lack of self-awareness, it requires a complete lack of self. Jonathan and Sara are prepared to be stars, but by the time they get there, the 'Jonathan' and 'Sara' identities are completely lost.
Burgess mixes up the Sun-style biopic with a few additions of his own. Sara's Face is alternately social satire, ghost story and, for a few brief moments, young adult action-adventure. The latter are probably the weakest additions to the overall story, but probably necessary to keep the reader from contemplating suicide by the half-way point.
In Sara's Face, Burgess has created another deeply-unsettling modern thriller on the nature of celebrity. Although intended for a young adult audience, the themes are depressingly ageless and will resonate with an adult reader as well.
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