Beautiful Things that Happen to Ugly People utilises a series of stream-of-consciousness vignettes and poems to uncover the yearning soul beneath the piles of societal conditioning, loneliness and urbanisation. These words, whether sad and amusing or cutting and poetic, are woven into illustrations and art pieces to blur the line between art and literature, reality and unreality, to serve the heart in the unifying experience of being alive.
If a glimmer of one true emotion is garnered from these pages, Beautiful Things has served its purpose.
From the back cover:
"Beautiful Things that Happen to Ugly People attempts to piece together the mysterious life of Paulie, a man seeming to live in all times and no time at all, a faceless composite of our most human of souls. The fragments of his life glimmer in like memories through poetry and prose, photos and paintings, images that recall first kisses adn wayward dreams, with treasured letters from frinds and lovers, collected over the years. It is literature wrapped around art and art wrapped around literature, the pages like dots for the reader to connect with their own lines.
Beautiful Things that Happen to Ugly People was written and illustrated by Sarah E Melville with letters written to Paulie by members of the Year Zerø Writers group and its community."
HOW TO BUY
The google check out over at www.sarahemelville.com worked an entire one time, and since then has been of absolutely no good use.
You may purchase a copy of Beautiful Things that happen to Ugly People through PayPal, via sarahemelville @ gmail . com
The book is $19
shipping within the continental US is $3
shipping to the outerlying states is probably a bit more (I will get back to you on this)
shipping to the UK is $11
STATS
147 pages; 120 full colour
33 vignettes and poems
13 letters written to Paulie
a few things drawn upside-down
a few (more) things drawn not upside-down
some Maya glyphs and a Twin Peaks reference or two
