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Skin Game : A Memoir

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Overview

Caroline Kettlewell's autobiography reveals a girl whose feelings of pain and alienation led her to seek relief in physically hurting herself, from age twelve into her twenties. Skin Game employs clear language and candid reflection to grant general readers as well as students an uncensored profile of a complex and unsettling disorder. "[This] mesmeric memoir examines the obsession with cutting that is believed to afflict somewhere around two million Americans, nearly all of them female," Francine Prose noted in Elle. "[Kettlewell's] language soars and its intensity deepens whenever she is recalling the lost joys and the thrilling sensation of sharp steel against her tender skin."

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312263935
  • ISBN-10: 0312263937
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
  • Publish Date: June 2000
  • Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds
  • Page Count: 192

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