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Second Skin

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#349456-VF44
Titel	Second Skin
Auteur	Hawkes, John
Boektype	Paperback
Druk	10e druk
Uitgeverij	New Directions Publishing
Jaar van uitgave	1964
ISBN10	0811200671
ISBN13	9780811200677
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	''John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should be more widely read.''—Saul Bellow Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves past and present—what he refers to as his ''naked history''—in 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 descr... (Lees verder)iptions 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.
Pagina's	209
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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