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Under The Skin

Written by: Michel Faber, David Mitchell - introduction
Narrated by: Gerri Halligan
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Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone?

An utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Michel Faber's debut novel is an outstanding piece of fiction that will stay with you long after you have turned the last page.

©2000 Michel Faber Science Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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Critic Reviews

". . . strange, adept, original . . . Would that more first novels were as adventurous or as funky and daring in their conception."
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Tenses and prods the reader up a plethora of literary blind alleys before hauling them screaming towards its final, thrilling destination.

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Profound and disturbing . . . Faber writes superbly.

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The real triumph is Faber's restrained, almost opaque prose. This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence.

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"A wonderful book - painful, lyrical, frightening, brilliant . . . I couldn't put it down."
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brilliantly compressed drama of threat and ambiguity . . . Recalling writers such as Jim Crace and Russell Hoban, Under the Skin, like Faber's short stories, is an extremely assured and imaginative work.

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"Under the Skin is a shocking and fantastical take on modern humanity."
"'One measure of a book is its stickability, its ability to remain in the mind long after being read. Michel Faber's Under the Skin passes this test with ease, or should that be unease? Faber builds a credible thriller on what seems the shakiest of premises . . . Its triumph, however, is that it plays on the mind long after a first reading. It is the best first novel of the year and a worthy successor to Faber's short stories."
"Astonishingly, this is Michel Faber's first novel. It is audacious, fascinating, repellent and quite unlike anything I have ever read."
"Edgy, accomplished debut . . . To describe the bizarre scenario behind this novel would make it sound absurd but in Michel Faber's hands it is a compelling and darkly disorientating tale. Told in sparse, often beautiful prose, Under the Skin defies genre, swerving from parable to science fiction and questioning what makes us human, how we connect to each other, and how we define and treat the 'other'. A refreshing reminder of how good fiction can make our own world seem alien."
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The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both . . . A remarkable novel.

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"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)
"Unlike anything else I've ever read." (David Sikey)
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