By Bonnie Bowman Salacious, funny, and painfully emotive, Skin is a provocative and ruminative parable about our deep-rooted urge to ostracize the freakish and shun the disfigured among us. An unconventional love story, Bowman probes the surface to reveal deeper, more lingering impulses connected to desire, understanding, and love. It is only on very extraordinary occasions when beauty and the beast get together, but they do here.
Skin is a cutting and startling debut novel.
Jack Minyard might have some answers, but then again a hard-drinkin' night shift bus driver named Lomas sees a lot of things that he doesn't always talk about . . . Winner Holden Caufield meets Barton Fink. Tarr's prose is measured, controlled and has the wry, pulpy feel of Raymond Chandler . . . Body Speaking Words is a poignant, funny and sexy account of one woman's attempt to understand what drives us to document the essential stories of our lives. Will strongly appeal to struggling authors.