| "A troubling, hammering but glorious novel. " David Mitchell |
On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War One, a steam ship approaches a desolate island far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man, on his way to assume the lonely post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a year at the end of the world.
But on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been sent to replace, just a deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror he refuses to name. The rest is woods, a deserted cabin, rocks, silence, and the surrounding sea. And then night begins to fall . . .
Albert Sanchez-Pinol's Cold Skin is one of the strangest, most unsettling novels you will read this year, a tour de force full of dark resonance and sexual anxiety.
Genre: Horror
But on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been sent to replace, just a deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror he refuses to name. The rest is woods, a deserted cabin, rocks, silence, and the surrounding sea. And then night begins to fall . . .
Albert Sanchez-Pinol's Cold Skin is one of the strangest, most unsettling novels you will read this year, a tour de force full of dark resonance and sexual anxiety.
Genre: Horror
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Hardback Editions
November 2005 : Hardback
| Title: Cold Skin: A Novel Author(s): Albert Sanchez Pinol ISBN: 0-374-18239-6 / 978-0-374-18239-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
February 2009 : Paperback
| Title: Cold Skin Author(s): Albert Sanchez Pinol ISBN: 0-14-317031-7 / 978-0-14-317031-0 (UK edition) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
March 2007 : Paperback
| Title: Cold Skin Author(s): Albert Sanchez Pinol ISBN: 1-84195-900-6 / 9781841959009 (UK edition) Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2006 : Paperback
| Title: Cold Skin Author(s): Albert Sanchez Pinol ISBN: 1-84195-688-0 / 9781841956886 (UK edition) Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
January 2001 : Paperback
| Title: Cold Skin Author(s): Albert Sanchez Pinol ISBN: 1-84195-883-2 / 9781841958835 (UK edition) Publisher: Canongate Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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