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Second Skin 

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John Hawkes

Second Skin

(1964)
A novel by

John Hawkes

"A magnificent work of the imagination. The pleasures of the story are prufuse and exciting."
Bernard Malamud


 

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.
 
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Hardback Editions

January 1966 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0701107545Title: Second Skin
Author(s): John Hawkes
ISBN: 0-7011-0754-5 / 978-0-7011-0754-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
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1964 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000OJR3E8Title: Second Skin
Author(s): John Hawkes
Publisher: New York New Directions,
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1963 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: B000JGE6N2Title: Second Skin
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Paperback Editions

November 2005 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0811216446Title: Second Skin
Author(s): John Hawkes
ISBN: 0-8112-1644-6 / 978-0-8112-1644-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: New Directions
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1965 : Mass Market Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000GZONNYTitle: Second Skin
Author(s): John Hawkes
Publisher: Signet Books
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June 1964 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0811200671Title: Second Skin
Author(s): John Hawkes
ISBN: 0-8112-0067-1 / 978-0-8112-0067-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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1963 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: B000R9W70UTitle: SECOND SKIN
Author(s): John Hawkes
Publisher: New Directions
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Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 045102768XTitle: Second Skin
Author(s): John Hawkes
ISBN: 0-451-02768-X / 978-0-451-02768-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Signet
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1968 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B0000CO5BNTitle: Second skin
Author(s): John Hawkes
Publisher: Sphere
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1968 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B0000CPOH9Title: SECOND SKIN
Author(s): JOHN HAWKES
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1966 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: B0000CMUZ9Title: Second skin
Author(s): John Hawkes
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