5/26/2023 0 Comments Under the skin faberThe ensuing narrative is one of such cumulative, compelling strangeness that it almost defies description-the one thing that can be said with certainty is that Under The Skin is unlike anything else you have ever read. What are the reason's for Isserley's extensive surgical scarring, her thick glasses (which are just glass), her excruciating backache? Who are the solitary few who work on the farm where her cottage is located? And why are they all nervous about the arrival of someone called Amlis Vess? But commonplace expectation is no guide for this strange and deeply unsettling book small details at first, then more major clues, suggest that something deeply bizarre is afoot. Puny, scrawny specimens were no use to her.So begins Michel Faber's first novel: a lone female scouts the Scottish Highlands in search of well-proportioned men and the reader is given to expect the unfolding of some latter-day psychosexual drama. She was looking for big muscles: a hunk on legs. Isserley always drove straight past a hitch-hiker when she first saw him, to give herself time to size him up.
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