(pb; 2004)
From the back cover:
" Isserley, a female driver, picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. She, herself, is tiny-like a kid peering up over the steering wheel.
"Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing clues about who might miss them if they should disappear. . ."
Review:
This melancholic, analytical, darkly funny and sometimes disturbing novel is underlined with class warfare, sexual tension and discontent, shifting social mores and other elements that made his outwardly dispassionate protagonist relatable, despite her alien, bizarre-to-humanity attributes. Faber propels the action with an appropriate, mounting sense of impending disaster, while maintaining Isserley's aforementioned melancholy and anger.
Skin is a good, distinctive read. Check it out.
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The resulting film was released stateside on August 29, 2013.
Scarlett Johansson played Laura (cinematic stand-in for Isserley). Paul Brannigan played Andrew. Jessica Mance played [an] "Alien". Krystof Hadek played "The Swimmer". Michael Moreland played "The Quiet Man". An uncredited Michael J. Goodwin played "Tearoom Customer".
Jonathan Glazer, who co-scripted the film with Walter Campbell, directed the film.
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