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Out of My Skin

John Haskell

Los Angeles. A would-be movie reviewer, looking for romance, takes an assignment to write a magazine article about celebrity look-alikes. After getting to know a Steve Martin impersonator, the writer decides to undertake his own process of transformation and becomes not Steve Martin but a version of him--graceful, charming, at home in the world. Safe in the guise of "Steve," he begins to fall in love. And that's when "Steve" takes over. Set in the capital of illusion, this is a story of one man's journey into paradise--and his attempt to come out the other side.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publish Date: Feb 3rd, 2009
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 0.60in - 0.50lb
  • EAN: 9780374299095
  • Categories: LiteraryWorld Literature - American - 21st Century

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About the Author

Haskell, John: - John Haskell is the author of Out of My Skin, American Purgatorio and of the short-story collection I Am Not Jackson Pollock. A contributor to the radio program The Next Big Thing, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Praise for this book

"The best new novel I've read in several years." --Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision

"Gutsy, weirdly engrossing . . . This strange, moving book has done just what a first novel should." --Taylor Antrim, The New York Times Book Review

"My novel of the year." --Geoff Dyer, The Independent (London)