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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
New Directions
Publication date
November 1, 2005
Pages
209
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780811216449
ISBN-10
0811216446
Dimensions
0.75 by 5 by 7.75 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Original list price
$16.95
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Summaries and Reviews
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"John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should be more widely read."âSaul Bellow
Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves past and presentâwhat he refers to as his "naked history"âin a series of episodes that tell the story of a volatile life marked by pitiful losses, as well as a more elusive, overwhelming, joy. The past: the suicides of his father, wife and daughter, the murder of his son-in-law, a brutal rape, and subsequent mutiny at sea. The present: caring for his granddaughter on a "northern" island where he works as an artificial inseminator of cows, and attempts to reclaim the innocence with which he faced the tragedies of his earlier life. Combining unflinching descriptions of suffering with his sense of beauty, Hawkes is a master of nimble and sensuous prose who makes the awful and mundane fantastic, and occasionally makes the fantastic surreal.Editions
Paperback
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from New Directions (November 1, 2005)
9780811216449 | details & prices | 209 pages | 5.00 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $16.95
About: "John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer.
About: "John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer.
from W W Norton & Co Inc (June 1, 1964)
9780811200677 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $10.95
About: âI felt right away, reading the first paragraph of Second Skin, that I was in the presence of the qualities Nabokov considered the hallmarks of art: curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy.
About: âI felt right away, reading the first paragraph of Second Skin, that I was in the presence of the qualities Nabokov considered the hallmarks of art: curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy.
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