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Under the skin / Michel Faber.
LIBRA PR6056.A27 U54 2001 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Faber, Michel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hitchhiking--Fiction.
- Hitchhiking.
- Scotland--Fiction.
- Scotland.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Horror fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 319 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Harvest edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt, 2001.
- Summary:
- In this haunting novel, readers are introduced to Isserley, a female driver who cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers. 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. A grotesque and comical allegory, "Under the Skin" takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangerous territory--our own moral instincts and the boundaries of compassion--to present a surreal representation of contemporary society run amok.
- Notes:
- "A Harvest book."
- Reprint. Originally published: c2000. With new reading group guide.
- ISBN:
- 0156011603
- 9780156011600
- OCLC:
- 47860948
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