Second Skin by John Hawkes
Requirements: ePub reader, 420 kb
Overview: 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.
Genre: General Fiction, Literary Fiction
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