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Second Skin

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  • In John Hawkes

    His next novel, Second Skin (1964), is the first-person confessional of a retired naval officer. The Blood Oranges (1971; filmed 1997), Death, Sleep, & the Traveler (1974), and Travesty (1976) explore the concepts of marriage and freedom to unsettling effect. The Passion Artist (1979) and Virginie: Her Two…

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