Description: Hailed as "original and unsettling, an "Animal Farm" for the new century" ("The Wall Street Journal"), this first novel introduces Isserley, a female driver who picks up hitchhikers with big muscles and listens for clues about who might miss them if they should disappear.
Brief description:
Michel Faber's work has been published in twenty countries and received several literary awards. He lives in Scotland.
Review Quotes:
"The fantastic is so nicely played against the day-to-day that one feels the strangeness of both . . . A remarkable novel." --The New York Times "Alternately gorgeous and terrifying, lyrical and brutal, Under the Skin compels and teases . . . Satisfying and successful." --Newsday "A wonderful book - painful, lyrical, frightening, brilliant . . . I couldn't put it down." --Kate Atkinson "Under the Skin tattoos the memory with an unholy trinity of hitch-hikers, the Scottish highlands and the extraterrestrial meat-packing industry. Wonderful, grisly and beyond bonkers." ---David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas "This is a man who could give Conrad a run at writing the perfect sentence." --The Guardian