- Literature, Fiction, Hitchhiking, Fiction, suspense
Short-listed for the Whitbread Award, this remarkable book defies categorisation. Under the Skin introduces Isserley, a woman obsessed with picking up male hitchhikers – so long as they're well-muscled and alone. But why? As the novel unfolds and the reason becomes clear, the reader is drawn inexorably into a completely unexpected and increasingly terrifying world.
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Contemporary, grave, bleak and overwhelming.
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- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Michel Faber
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio, Inc., Einaudi, Torino
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781841975337
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“ISSERLEY ALWAYS DROVE straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up.”
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