What if your first true love broke all known taboos? What if your very first romance drowned you in a whirlpool of transgression? A coming-of-age novel that is minutely in tune with the perversions of its narrator's body, _The Skin Is the Elastic Covering that Encases the Entire Body_ defines catego
The Skin Is the Elastic Covering That Encases the Entire Body
β Scribed by Bjorn Rasmussen
- Book ID
- 110684008
- Publisher
- Two Lines Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781931883863
- ASIN
- B07QMYQCBR
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β¦ Synopsis
What if your first true love broke all known taboos? What if your very first romance drowned you in a whirlpool of transgression? A coming-of-age novel that is minutely in tune with the perversions of its narrator's body, The Skin Is the Elastic Covering that Encases the Entire Body defines category. The desperate account of a teenage boy in love with a much older riding instructor, it follows the unforgettable Bjorn as he pushes his flesh to its very limits, annihilating boundaries of gender and sexuality in a search for impossible gratification.
A feverish combination of stream of conscious, autobiography, collage, and narrative, Skin marks the arrival of a truly original literary voice. It is as omnivorous as the bodies within it, as unrestrained as the appetites, terrors, and trystings that celebrated author Bjorn Rasumssen evokes in poetic detail. Deeply emotional, erotic, elegiac, and pansexual, it caresses the wounds we visit upon our flesh and soul in an attempt to serve the urges of the body's largest organβthe skin that covers and defines us.
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