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Cold Skin
Shortly after World War I, a troubled man accepts a solitary assignment as a "weather official" on a tiny, remote island on the edges of the Antarctic. When he arrives, the predecessor he is meant to replace is missing and a deeply disturbed stranger is barricaded in a heavily fortified lighthouse. At first adversaries, the two find that their tenuous partnership may be the only way they survive the unspeakably horrific reptilian creatures that ravage the island at night, attacking the lighthouse in their organized effort to find warm-blooded food. Armed with a battery of ammunition and explosives, the weather official and his new ally must confront their increasingly murderous mentality, and, when the possibility of a kind of truce presents itself, decide what kind of island they will inhabit. Equal parts Stephen King, a phantasmagorical Robinson Crusoe, and Lord of the Flies, Cold Skin is literary horror that deals with the basist forms of human behavior imaginable, while exploring why we so vehemently fear the Other.
Book Details
- Publisher: Canongate Us
- Publish Date: Feb 6th, 2007
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.75in - 0.62in - 0.62lb
- EAN: 9781841958835
- Categories: • Literary• Horror - General
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Praise for this book
"Sentence by sentence, Pinol's first novel offers a tightly crafted allegory of human brutality, both fascinating and repellent."
"A troubling, hammering but glorious novel that I read with all the self-possession of a drug addict: a sort of bastard offspring of All Quiet on the Western Front and J. G. Ballard." -- David Mitchell
"A cross between Jules Verne and Dino Buzzati's The Tartar Steppe, a philosophical tale wrapped in a gripping plot, a meditation on solitude, violence, and what it means to be human, a great, creepy, tender read--such is Pinol's Cold Skin." -- Yann Martel