Richard Trench finds himself with no arms and no legs, reduced to a torso in the trunk of a car. There is a reason. It all makes sense. The point is there somewhere . . . Imperfections elucidates the private lives of supermodels and circus freaks, sheiks and designer dominatrixes, midgets and the metamorphosis of the body chic. These are lives where the importance of vehicular mephitis-cide, a charity lobster boil for burn victims, a grilled cheese sandwich with the face of the Virgin Mary toasted on it and a prophecy about the uncanny deaths of the voiceactors for Tigger and Piglet cannot be overlooked. Set in the world of glittering photo shoots in exotic locations, extreme visions of beauty and raucous fashion shows, this is a genre-bending novel that sits solidly in the foggy area between fact and fiction.