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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 won the ($50,000) 1990 Mysterious Press Discovery Contest for the Best First Crime Novel for Box Nine. He is also the author of Word Made Flesh and Wireless both published by No Exit. He is a magazine editor and schlemiel and lives in Massachusetts.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

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