Under the Skin
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The basis for the film starring Scarlett Johansson, award-winning author Michel Faber's Under the Skin blends elements of science fiction, grotesque comedy, horror, and thriller into a genre-jumping meditation'' (Washington Post Book World).
Isserley cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing clues about who might miss them if they should disappear.
Under the Skin takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangerous territory—our own moral instincts and the boundaries of compassion.
''A fascinating psychological thriller. . . [that] hovers between the real and the fantastic.''—Baltimore Sun
''Original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century.''—Wall Street Journal
''A satiric novel eerie and touching in equal parts.''—San Francisco Chronicle
Isserley cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing clues about who might miss them if they should disappear.
Under the Skin takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangerous territory—our own moral instincts and the boundaries of compassion.
''A fascinating psychological thriller. . . [that] hovers between the real and the fantastic.''—Baltimore Sun
''Original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century.''—Wall Street Journal
''A satiric novel eerie and touching in equal parts.''—San Francisco Chronicle
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Street Date:
07/16/2001
Language:
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Michel Faber. (2001). Under the Skin. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Michel Faber. 2001. Under the Skin. HarperCollins.
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Isserley cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing clues about who might miss them if they should disappear.
Under the Skin takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangerous territory—our own moral instincts and the boundaries of compassion.
''A fascinating psychological thriller. . . [that] hovers between the real and the fantastic.''—Baltimore Sun
''Original and unsettling, an Animal Farm for the new century.''—Wall Street Journal
''A satiric novel eerie and touching in equal parts.''—San Francisco Chronicle - reviews
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July 3, 2000
A strange woman named Isserley roams the Scottish Highlands in search of juicy, well-muscled hitchhikers in Faber's menacing but unfulfilling debut novel (after Some Rain Must Fall, a collection of short stories). The opening chapters are suffused with an almost palpable sense of dread: Isserley picks up one hitchhiker after another and engages them in conversation, measuring them against a set of criteria of which the reader, as yet, is unaware. Some of the men are discarded and some are kept; in the process the reader learns that Isserley herself is oddly shaped, with breasts too large, legs too short, and scars everywhere. Faber's pacing here is masterful, with clues precisely dropped and details ominously described. But once Faber reveals the reason Isserley is collecting the hitchhikers (and it's truly bizarre), the book turns from horror to allegory and begins to run out of steam. The central conceit of the allegory is repugnant, but also unimpressive; it feels like something animal rights extremists might have cooked up after watching Soylent Green. Faber possesses an undeniable gift for grotesque imagery ("He grinned so broadly it was like an incision slicing his head in two"), but his unsettling prose doesn't adequately flesh out the underdeveloped premise of the story. Still, the Dutch-born and Australian-raised Faber is a strange and promising new talent, and his next novel might better use the macabre skills he so unnervingly displays here.
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Under the Skin takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangerous territory—our own moral instincts and the boundaries of compassion.
''A fascinating psychological thriller. . . [that] hovers between the real and the fantastic.''—Baltimore Sun
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