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Under The Skin
Michel Faber
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Description for Under The Skin
Paperback. One of Michel Faber's best-loved novels, this is an utterly compulsive and mysterious masterpiece Series: Canons. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
With an introduction by David Mitchell Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone? An utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Under the Skin is a genre-defying masterpiece.
With an introduction by David Mitchell Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone? An utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Under the Skin is a genre-defying masterpiece.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Canons
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786890528
SKU
V9781786890528
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Michel Faber
Michel Faber has written nine other books. In addition to the Whitbread-shortlisted Under the Skin, he is the author of the highly acclaimed The Crimson Petal and the White, The Book of Strange New Things, which was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and won the Saltire Book of the Year Award 2015, and most recently Undying, his first poetry collection. Born in Holland, brought up in Australia, he now lives in the UK.
Reviews for Under The Skin
A wonderful book - painful, lyrical, frightening, brilliant . . . I couldn't put it down
Kate Atkinson One of the best-orchestrated reveals in modern British fiction . . . Michel Faber is a masterly writer
David Mitchell Profound and disturbing . . . Faber writes superbly
Sunday Times
This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence
Guardian
Tenses and prods the reader up a plethora of literary blind alleys before hauling them screaming towards its final, thrilling destination
Daily Telegraph
Strange, adept, original . . . Would that more first novels were as adventurous or as funky and daring in their conception
Independent on Sunday
A brilliantly compressed drama of threat and ambiguity . . . Recalling writers such as Jim Crace and Russell Hoban, Under the Skin, like Faber's short stories, is an extremely assured and imaginative work
Observer
Astonishingly, this is Michel Faber's first novel. It is audacious, fascinating, repellent and quite unlike anything I have ever read
Mail on Sunday
Under the Skin is a shocking and fantastical take on modern humanity
The Week
The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both . . . A remarkable novel
New York Times
Kate Atkinson One of the best-orchestrated reveals in modern British fiction . . . Michel Faber is a masterly writer
David Mitchell Profound and disturbing . . . Faber writes superbly
Sunday Times
This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence
Guardian
Tenses and prods the reader up a plethora of literary blind alleys before hauling them screaming towards its final, thrilling destination
Daily Telegraph
Strange, adept, original . . . Would that more first novels were as adventurous or as funky and daring in their conception
Independent on Sunday
A brilliantly compressed drama of threat and ambiguity . . . Recalling writers such as Jim Crace and Russell Hoban, Under the Skin, like Faber's short stories, is an extremely assured and imaginative work
Observer
Astonishingly, this is Michel Faber's first novel. It is audacious, fascinating, repellent and quite unlike anything I have ever read
Mail on Sunday
Under the Skin is a shocking and fantastical take on modern humanity
The Week
The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both . . . A remarkable novel
New York Times