Under the Skin
de Faber, Michel
- Usado
- Estado
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 1841950947
- ISBN 13
- 9781841950945
- Librería
-
Dunfermline, Fife, United Kingdom
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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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Detalles
- Librería
- Better World Books Ltd (GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- GRP8999504
- Título
- Under the Skin
- Autor
- Faber, Michel
- Estado del libro
- Used - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 2
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 1841950947
- ISBN 13
- 9781841950945
- Editorial
- Canongate Books
- Lugar de publicación
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2000