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001			ASIN0811200671
005			20110915065257.0
008			110915s1964 xxu eng d
020			_a0811200671 (paperback) _c$10.95
020			_a9780811200677 (paperback)
082	0	4	_a813.54
100	1		_aHawkes, John.
245	1	0	_aSecond skin / _cJohn Hawkes.
250			_a12th ed.
260			_aNew York: _bW W Norton & Co Inc, _c1964.
300			_a210 p. ; _c21 cm.
520			_a"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	4	0	_3Amazon.com _uhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0811200671/chopaconline-20
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