Michel Faber
Paperback | Pages: 296 pages Rating: 3.72 | 20285 Users | 2346 Reviews
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| Title | : | Under the Skin |
| Author | : | Michel Faber |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 296 pages |
| Published | : | May 3rd 2004 by Canongate Books Ltd (first published 2000) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Horror. Fantasy |
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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.Declare Books Supposing Under the Skin
| Original Title: | Under the Skin |
| ISBN: | 1841954802 (ISBN13: 9781841954806) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Scotland |
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Ratings: 3.72 From 20285 Users | 2346 ReviewsCritique Containing Books Under the Skin
UPDATE!This is a very unusul situation for me, but this is a very unusual book. I'm actually looking extremely forward to seeing the movie. The director Jonathan Glazer doesn't do many movies but he did do Sexy Beast which is a must-see, and he did do this amazing advert :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-ut_2...So bring it on! And now, the original book review.******Things I love about Under the Skin- the heroine is really creepy- the whole situation is really mental (that's a literary termA very interesting and nauseating book. For a long time, you have no clue whatsoever what is going on, but you have strong suspicions it is not going to be pleasant at all to find out. You are disoriented but intrigued about the strange hitchhiking adventures of the main character Isserley. Still, you are unprepared when it hits you on the head. The discovery is so fantastic that it stops you in your tracks. I really liked how Michael Faber shows us a view of our world from a very different
Get Outta My DreamsGet Into My CarThe woman has a job to do: finding young, fit male bodies and bringing them on back to the farm. It takes dedication and sacrifice on her part; but there are worse jobs. She gets to live in the Scottish countryside, work in the outdoors, and generally be her own boss. And shes proud of her trade-craft. After so many years, her hunting and seducing skills are sharply honed.But theres always more to learn. Shes got the local accents down pretty well. But her own
ISSERLEY ALWAYS DROVE straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up. She was looking for big muscles: a hunk on legs. Puny, scrawny specimens were no use to her. *Minor spoilers* Disturbing, strangely compelling and original: Under the Skin is unlike anything I have ever read before. The story follows, Isserley, a female driver who picks up hitchhikers for secret purposes. She needs a certain type of guy: big muscled, tall and fit. What her reason is of
Posted at HeradasLiterary science fiction that is compulsively creepy and disturbing in all the right ways. Orwellian by way of Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. More Animal Farm than 1984. I think fans of Jeff VanderMeer's style of New Weird fiction would have a lot to enjoy here.It's a moral story, without particularly taking any one side, mostly just intended to provoke some discussion I imagine. It could easily be interpreted as an animal rights activism novel, but I'm not so sure it
Caution, spoilers! A modern fable on any number of potential issuesanimal cruelty? corporate greed? human brutality?set in a version of the Highlands where multiple people hitchhike each day (I go frequently to the Highlands and Ive never seen no hitchhikersmaybe Faber ate them all?) The story begins with our big-breasted heroine Isserley picking up a series of unemployed assholes and stabbing them in the buttocks with a stun chemical activated via her dashboard. She drives her victims, known as
Under the Skin is a reviewer's nightmare - it's literally impossible to discuss this book without touching the plot, and the whole thing hinges on mystery that surrounds it. This is a novel which is all about the big reveal, and Michel Faber delights in teeeeeeasing the reader with the smallest of hints and nudges.All I can tell you, spoiler free, is this - an attractive, lone woman, Isserley, drives on the A9 motorway through the Scottish Highlands, searching for hitch-hikers. She drives along
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