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ALL KINDS OF BEAUTY is set in the San Francisco Bay Area, France, and Taos, New Mexico. Natalie, an artist, believes she has a stable marriage, but her seven beautiful portrait subjects all have problems with men and-as it turns out-so does Natalie. The joys and heartbreaks of life-long friendship and the process of an artist in search of herself create a compelling canvas in this tale of love, betrayal and redemption. The narrative encompasse...

Marianne Gage is an old-fashioned writer in the best sense of the word. She develops characters organically through keenly observed gestures and spot-on colloquial language, and soon the reader is sucked into their lives, witnessing and caring deeply about the small dramas and traumas of daily life in Oklahoma. These characters aren't demonstrative in a modern way, blabbing about their inner life to anyone who will listen, rather, they meet li...

Gage is a peerless judge of human nature. Wry, funny, forgiving, she reminds us at times of John Barth, Katherine Anne Porter, and Sherwood Anderson. Her little Putneyville is big enough to encompass every human vice and virtue, and reading its fables and foibles, we recognize these people-and then, perhaps, we blush. -Michael Carr, multiple best-selling editor In today's world of collapsing economies and ecosystems, can the ageless wisdom of ...