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ISBN: 1901982297
Price: £9.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198 x 129mm)
Extent: 448pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth excl. Canada
Pub. Date: June 1997

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jack O'Connell is the author of five critically acclaimed novels, which have earned him something of a cult status. He won the ($50,000) 1990 Mysterious Press Discovery Contest for the Best First Crime Novel for Box Nine, which launched his career. This and his other novels Wireless, The Skin Palace and Word Made Flesh are all published by No Exit Press. His work has been praised by James Ellroy, Nail Gaiman, Katherine Dunn, George Pelecanos and Jonathan Carroll, among others. He is a magazine editor and lives in Worcester, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.

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The Skin Palace

by
Jack O'Connell

ABOUT THE BOOK


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A harrowing and ecstatic descent into a breathtaking netherworld aswirl with the real, the imagined and the absolutely unforgettable. Amid the post industrial decay of Quinsigamond glitters a fabulous jewel - Herzog's Erotic Palace - America's most lavish porn theatre and a gangland laundry for semi-sour cash. But most of all, Herzog's is the place where dreamers meet and seductive nightmares find their dazzling realisation. For the obsessed grunge auteur, the heartsick crime king, the apocalyptic tele-evangelist and the young woman intent on a capturing a shrouded past and an onrushing future within a camera's lens, The Skin Palace will reveal all secrets, in a script fraught with danger and feverish transformation.


CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'Mesmerizing...light-years away from your garden-variety thriller. The Skin Palace may remind you of Blade Runner or the novels of William Gibson, but O'Connell has his own dazzling tale to tell...Wickedly clever' - Seattle Times

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RELATED LINKS

Jack O'Connell on book signing - and biting - in London

Maxim Jakubowski on Jack O'Connell in The Guardian

Jack O'Connell on his latest, The Resurrectionist

Author Interview - Crime Time Online

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OTHER TITLES BY THIS AUTHOR

The Resurrectionist (pb)
Word Made Flesh (pb)