Second Skin

"...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....Hawkes, John is the author of 'Second Skin' with ISBN 9780811200677 and ISBN 0811200671.