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Second Skin

By John Hawkes

Second Skin

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I felt right away, reading the first paragraph of Second Skin, that I was in the presence of the qualities Nabokov considered the hallmarks of art: curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy. Jeffrey Eugenides Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves past and presentwhat 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.
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Binding:
Paperback
Release Date:
1964-02-01
Publication Date:
1964-02-01
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0811200671
Weight:
236 g

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