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Buy a cheap copy of under the skin book by michel faber. Fabers highly entertaining and thoughtprovoking novel creeps up on you with the realization that there are no easy answers, no purely good or bad choices in how we deal with monsters both those of our own device and those others have created to plague us. Like the sun in the highlands, michel faber has been threatening for so long now that i had begun to think of him as a myth a sly fabulist way up. It was a word people tended to resort to when dispensability was in the air. In the opening pages of under the skin, a lone female is scouting the scottish highlands in search of wellproportioned men. The book defies all categorisation, masquerading as a thriller, sciencefiction and horror all at once. Michel faber is a strong, moral voice, and this first novel promises great things for the future.
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Under the skin by michel faber paperback 9781786890528 published by canongate 6 july 2017. Michel faber was born in the hague, netherlands on april, 1960. Under the skin blends elements of science fiction, grotesque comedy, horror, and thriller into a genrejumping meditation. Under the skin by michel faber a little blog of books. Australian writer michel faber, now well ensconced in scotland, has written a wildly imaginative, scorching, bizarre, and insidious first novel. Washington post book world original and unsettling, an animal farm for the new centurymichel faber is a strong, moral voice, and this first novel promises great things for the future.
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