Skin folk / Nalo Hopkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hopkinson, Nalo

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science fiction, Canadian.

Life on other planets--Fiction.

Life on other planets.

Emigration and immigration.

West Indies.

West Indies--Emigration and immigration--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 255 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Aspect/Warner Books, 2001.

Summary:

Nalo Hopkinson has gained universal acclaim as one of the most impressively original authors to emerge in years. Her debut novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel, became a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and garnered Hopkinson the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Her second novel, Midnight Robber, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the Hugo and Nebula awards. Now she presents Skin Folk, a richly vibrant collection of short fiction that ranges from Trinidad to Toronto, from fantastic folklore to frightening futures, from houses of deadly haunts to realms of dark sexuality. Powerful and sensual, disturbing and triumphant, these tales explore the surface of modern existence... and delve under the skin of eternal legends.

Contents:

Riding the red

Money tree

Something to hitch meat to

Snake

Under glass

The glass bottle trick

Slow cold chick

Fisherman

Tan-Tan and Dry Bone

Greedy choke puppy

A habit of waste

And the lillies-them a-blow

Whose upward flight I love

Ganger (ball lightning)

Precious.

Notes:

"First Printing: December 2001."

"Cover design by Don Puckey."

"Cover illustration by Mark Harrison."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0446678031

OCLC:

46975003