Under the Skin
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780151006267 |
Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Imprint: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pub date: | 23 Jul 2000 |
Edition: | 1st Edition |
DEWEY: | 823.914 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Number of pages: | 320 |
Weight: | 499g |
Height: | 217mm |
Width: | 147mm |
Spine width: | 33mm |