Under the Skin - Couverture rigide

Faber, Michel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151006261 ISBN 13 : 9780151006267

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Revue de presse :

"A wonderful book - painful, lyrical, frightening, brilliant . . . I couldn't put it down." -- Kate Atkinson

 

"The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both . . . A remarkable novel." – The New York Times

 

"Under the Skin 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 CLOUD ATLAS

"This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence." – The Guardian

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0151006261
• ISBN 13: 9780151006267
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320