Out of My Skin

Los Angeles. A would-be movie reviewer, looking for romance, takes an assignment to write a magazine article about celebrity look-alikes. After getting to know a Steve Martin impersonator, the writer decides to undertake his own process of transformation and becomes not Steve Martin but a version of him--graceful, charming, at home in the world. Safe in the guise of Steve, he begins to fall in love. And that's when Steve takes over. Set in the capital of illusion, this is a story of one man's journey into paradise--and his attempt to come out the other side.

Author: John Haskell
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 02/03/2009
Pages: 211
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780374299095

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/24/2008 pg. 36
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2008 pg. 1220
Booklist 02/01/2009 pg. 28
New York Times Book Review 03/29/2009 pg. 19
New Yorker (The) 05/11/2009 pg. 103
New York Review of Books 08/13/2009 pg. 36

About the Author

JOHN HASKELL is the author of American Purgatorio and of the short-story collection I Am Not Jackson Pollock. A contributor to the radio program The Next Big Thing, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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