Under the Skin
by Faber, Michel
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- Hardcover
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- New
- ISBN 10
- 0151006261
- ISBN 13
- 9780151006267
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Synopsis
Isserley picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. She, herself, is tiny-like a kid peering up over the steering wheel. She has a remarkable face and wears the thickest corrective lenses anyone has ever seen. Her posture is suggestive of some spinal problem. Her breasts are perfect; perhaps implants. She is strangely erotic yet somehow grotesque, vulnerable yet threatening. Her hitchhikers are a mixed bunch of men-trailer trash and travelling postgrads, thugs and philosophers. But Isserley is only interested in whether they have families and whether they have muscles. Then, it's only a question of how long she can endure her pain-physical and spiritual-and their conversation. Michel Faber's work has been described as a combination of Roald Dahl and Franz Kafka, as Somerset Maugham shacking up with Ian McEwan. At once humane and horrifying, Under the Skin takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangerous territory-our own moral instincts and the boundaries of compassion. A grotesque and comical allegory announcing the arrival of an exciting talent, rich and assured.
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- Bookseller
- GridFreed LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Q-0151006261
- Title
- Under the Skin
- Author
- Faber, Michel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0151006261
- ISBN 13
- 9780151006267
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000-07-23
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