Under The Skin
de Faber, Michel
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- ISBN 10
- 0006393721
- ISBN 13
- 9780006393726
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
Toronto: Harper Collins, 2004. Paperback. pp. 296. 8vo. Light shelfwear, some dog-earing, small marks to top and bottom of foredge; good+.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 091947
- Título
- Under The Skin
- Autor
- Faber, Michel
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0006393721
- ISBN 13
- 9780006393726
- Editorial
- Harper Collins
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto
- Fecha de publicación
- 2004
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