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Under the Skin

Under the Skin

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Under the Skin

by Michel Faber

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0156011603
ISBN 13
9780156011600
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Harvest, 7/1/2001. Paperback. Good. 8x5x0. Paperback book in good condition. Crease in cover.

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's Inventory #
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Title
Under the Skin
Author
Michel Faber
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Good
Quantity Available
1
ISBN 10
0156011603
ISBN 13
9780156011600
Publisher
Harvest
Place of Publication
Ny Usa
Date Published
7/1/2001
Size
8x5x0
X weight
11 oz

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