Out of My Skin - Softcover

Haskell, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374299099 ISBN 13: 9780374299095

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"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)

About the Author:

JOHN HASKELL is the author of 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0374299099
• ISBN 13: 9780374299095
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224