Second skin / (Record no. 11063)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01537nam a2200193 a 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | ASIN0811200671 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20110915052712.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 110915s1964 xxu eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0811200671 (paperback) |
| Terms of availability | $10.95 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780811200677 (paperback) |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 813.54 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hawkes, John. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Second skin / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | John Hawkes. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 12th ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | W W Norton & Co Inc, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1964. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 210 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 21 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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 descriptions 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. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Amazon.com |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0811200671/chopaconline-20">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0811200671/chopaconline-20</a> |
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