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Skin - Kathe Koja - 2019
By: Kathe Koja
Narrated by: Suzanne T. Fortin
Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 06-24-19
Language: English
Genre: Horror
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Format: mp3 64/44.1 mono
Publisher's Summary
As a sculptor of metal, Tess is consumed with the perfection of welds, the drip of liquid metal, addicted to the burn. Her solitary existence ends when she meets Bibi. A self-proclaimed "guerilla performance artist," Bibi pushes her body to the utmost in her dancing, sculpting it into a finely tuned machine. But the limits of her body frustrate her. With Tess, she creates a performance art of mobile, bladelike sculptures and human dance that becomes increasingly violent and dangerous. Still this is not enough for Bibi. Her desire to grow and transform leads her to body piercing, then to ritual cuttings and scarrings. And further. Though Tess breaks their partnership, she cannot stop Bibi's dark exploration of the limits of her body. Her search is self-destructive, all-encompassing...unstoppable.
©2013 Kathe Koja (P)2019 David N. Wilson
About the author
Kathe Koja was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1960. Her first novel, The Cipher, won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 1992 and the Locus Award. She also won a Deathrealm Award for Strange Angels. Her other adult novels include Bad Brains, Skin, Kink, and Under the Poppy. She also writes young adult novels including Straydog, Buddha Boy, The Blue Mirror, and Going Under.
Critic Reviews
"A dark and frightening work by a major talent whose prose reads like a collaboration between Clive Barker and William S. Burroughs. Highly recommended." (Library Journal)
"Humorless novel about art punks in an unnamed present-day city...the novel, like the art of the characters it portrays, is a sustained exercise in style over substance." (Publishers Weekly)
"The language Koja employs is fresh and astonishing, harsh yet beautiful." (Washington Post Book World)
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