Under the Skin - by Michel Faber (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Hailed as "original and unsettling, an "Animal Farm" for the new century" ("The Wall Street Journal"), this first novel introduces Isserley, a female driver who picks up hitchhikers with big muscles and listens for clues about who might miss them if they should disappear.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In this haunting, entrancing novel, Michel Faber introduces us 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. <i>Under the Skin</i> takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangerous territory--our own moral instincts and the boundaries of compassion.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Now a Major Motion Picture "Alternately gorgeous and terrifying, lyrical and brutal, "Under the Skin "compels and teases . . . Satisfying and successful." "Newsday"In this haunting, entrancing novel, Michel Faber introduces us 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."A wonderful book painful, lyrical, frightening, brilliant . . . I couldn t put it down." Kate Atkinson, author of "Life After Life"Finalist for the Whitbread AwardMichel Faber is the author of "The Crimson Petal and the White, The Courage Consort, "and "Some Rain Must Fall." His work has been published in twenty countries and received several literary awards. He lives in Scotland.<BR>"<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both . . . A remarkable novel." --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/> "Alternately gorgeous and terrifying, lyrical and brutal, Under the Skin compels and teases . . . Satisfying and successful." --<i>Newsday</i> <p/> "A wonderful book - painful, lyrical, frightening, brilliant . . . I couldn't put it down." --Kate Atkinson <p/> "<i>Under the Skin</i> tattoos the memory with an unholy trinity of hitch-hikers, the Scottish highlands and the extraterrestrial meat-packing industry. Wonderful, grisly and beyond bonkers." ---David Mitchell, author of<i> Cloud Atlas</i> <p/> "This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence." --<i>The Guardian</i></p><br>
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