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Synopsis
A metafictional narrative of a sailor's life. Papa Cue Ball (or "Skipper") came from a violent family (his father, wife, and daughter all committed suicide) and spent most of his life at sea. Now he lives in retirement on a tropical island and spends most of his time reflecting on the strangeness of his own life.
| Details | | Series: | New Directions Paperbook, 1027 |
| Size | | Length: | 209 pages | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"...a work of gifted maturity; it has been achieved, so far as appears, by the classically direct principle of developing one's artistic perceptions in accord with one's artistic nature, and letting the labels, along with the advertisements, fall where they may....Fortunately, Mr. Hawkes's narrator is possessed of Mr. Hawkes's prose style; his speech bubbles and purls in long streams of looped syntax and frothy image, it focusses and unfocusses as if equipped with a zoom lens. It is that rare thing, an artistically imaginative style...consciously alive and vibrant...."
New York Review of Books - Robert M. Abrams (04/02/1964)
"Hawkes is one of the half-dozen authors of first rank in America today. In Second Skin he has written a beautiful book."
New York Times Book Review - Susan Sontag
"Everything Hawkes has written expresses his almost unbearable awareness of the strangeness of life, and if his work is sometimes mystifying, if he refuses to fit all the pieces of the puzzle into place, that is because he feels so strongly the disorderliness of existence."
Saturday Review - Granville Hicks (03/28/1964)
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