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Under the Skin is a 2000 science fiction novel by Michel Faber. Set on the east coast in northern Scotland, it traces an alien who, manifesting in human form, drives around the countryside picking up male hitchhikers whom she drugs and delivers to her home planet. The novel, which was Faber's debut, was shortlisted for the 2000 Whitbread Award
Jun 14, 2022 · From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation.
Jun 14, 2022 · From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation.
Jul 1, 2001 · Under the Skin Paperback – July 1, 2001. by Michel Faber (Author) 4.0 3,497 ratings. See all formats and editions. In this haunting, entrancing novel, Michel Faber introduces us to Isserley, a female driver who cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers.
Jan 1, 2000 · In a surreal portrait of contemporary society run amok, Isserley spends her life picking up hitchhikers, a diverse array of trailer trash, graduate students, thugs, and philosophers, whose only interest for Isserley is whether they have families and whether they have muscles. A first novel. 25,000 first printing.
Jun 8, 2022 · UNDER THE SKIN: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation, by Linda Villarosa. In 1973, two Black girls, 14-year-old Minnie Lee Relf and her 12-year-old sister...
Jul 1, 2000 · Kirkus Prize winner. National Book Award Finalist. Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.
Apr 23, 2019 · Under the Skin by Michel Faber is a novel that slipstreams science fiction, but remains in literary realms due to the author’s careful theming and character journey. His first novel, written when he was forty years old, Faber had returned from Australia with his wife Eva, to the Scottish Highlands.
Oct 15, 2013 · A brilliantly told and beautifully written novel that defies categorization, Under the Skin introduces Isserley, a woman obsessed with picking up male hitchhikers— so long as...
Jul 16, 2001 · Original and unsettling, Under the Skin is a deftly paced social satire, an Animal Farm for the new century. Michel Faber's is a strong, moral voice, and this first novel promises great things for the future.
