Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson
World Fantasy Award Winner: Fiction that combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling, by the author of The Salt Roads (Library Journal).In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best spinning tales like Precious, in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. In A Habit of Waste, a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance; days later she's shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus. In The Glass Bottle Trick, the young protagonist ignores her intuition regarding her new husband's superstitions--to horrifying consequences.
Hopkinson's unique and vibrant sense of pacing and dialogue sets a steady beat for stories that illustrate why she received the 1999 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Entertaining, challenging, and alluring, Skin Folk is not to be missed.
Nalo Hopkinson has won numerous awards including the John W. Campbell Award, the World Fantasy Award, and Canada's Sunburst Award for Literature of the Fantastic. Her award-winning short fiction collection Skin Folk was selected for the 2002 New York Times Summer Reading List and was one of the New York Times Best Books of the Year. Born in Jamaica, Nalo has lived in Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada. READER BIO
Robin Miles is a Golden Voice, Audiofile Magazine's top 30 voices in the U.S., whose numerous performing & directing awards include Audies, Earphones, and several Best of the Year designations. She has narrated over 200 audiobooks, including bestsellers, Cleopatra: A Life and The Warmth of Other Suns, in addition to museum installations and documentary films. She handles archaic historical fiction, SciFi/Fantasy, Romance, and poetry with equal agility and you will find her memorable work in almost all genres. Additional credits include Broadway's The Violet Hour, many Shakespeare and classic stage plays, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and National Geographic's Tales from the Wild. She is a graduate of Yale University (B.A.) and The Yale School of Drama (M.F.A.), and owns Voxpertise, Inc., a VO production company and voice training company in NYC.
Robin Miles is a Golden Voice, Audiofile Magazine's top 30 voices in the U.S., whose numerous performing & directing awards include Audies, Earphones, and several Best of the Year designations. She has narrated over 200 audiobooks, including bestsellers, Cleopatra: A Life and The Warmth of Other Suns, in addition to museum installations and documentary films. She handles archaic historical fiction, SciFi/Fantasy, Romance, and poetry with equal agility and you will find her memorable work in almost all genres. Additional credits include Broadway's The Violet Hour, many Shakespeare and classic stage plays, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and National Geographic's Tales from the Wild. She is a graduate of Yale University (B.A.) and The Yale School of Drama (M.F.A.), and owns Voxpertise, Inc., a VO production company and voice training company in NYC.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780446678032 |
| ISBN 10 | 0446678031 |
| Title | Skin Folk |
| Author | Nalo Hopkinson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown & Company |
| Year published | 2001-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 255 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Gold Pen Awards (Novella/Short Story Coll) 2002 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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