Under the Skin
Faber, Michel
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BOOK SUMMARY
Hailed as "original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century" (The Wall Street Journal), this first novel lingers long after the last page has been turned.
Described as a "fascinating psychological thriller" (The Baltimore Sun), this entrancing
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Hailed as "original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century" (The Wall Street Journal), this first novel lingers long after the last page has been turned.
Described as a "fascinating psychological thriller" (The Baltimore Sun), this entrancing novel introduces Isserley, a female driver who picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. She, herself, is tiny-like a kid peering up over the steering wheel. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing clues about who might miss them if they should disappear. 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, a surreal representation of contemporary society run amok, Under the Skin has been internationally received as the arrival of an exciting talent, rich and assured.
AUTHOR BIO
Born in the Netherlands in 1960, Michel Faber emigrated to Australia at the age of seven, and moved to Ross-Shire, Scotland, eight years ago. A graduate of Melbourne University, he has worked as a nurse, a pickle-packer, a cleaner, and a guinea pig for medical research.
BOOK REVIEWS
"A fascinating book . . . The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both. . . . Remarkable."-The New York Times Book Review
"Alternately gorgeous and terrifying, lyrical and brutal, Under the Skin compels and teases. . . . A growing need to turn the pages sneaks up on you. . . . So satisfying and successful."-Newsday
"A fantastic first novel, a great first novel, so intelligently and beautifully made a book as to deserve a wide readership."-The Boston Book Review
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0156011603
ISBN(13-digit): 9780156011600
Copyright: 2000
Dewey Decimal: 823/.914
Library of Congress: BL2001010676
Book Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language: ENG
Binding: Sewn
No. of Pages: 319
Paper Weight (lb): 0.75
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