{"product_id":"skin-for-skin-9780992078676","title":"Skin For Skin","description":"A deeply personal meditation on death and the meaning of life \u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1925, \u003ci\u003eSkin For Skin\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply personal account of Llewelyn Powys' encounter with tuberculosis, which he contracted in 1909 at the age of twenty-five. In those days, prior to the discovery of antibiotics, TB - or consumption as it was then called - was a leading cause of death; for Powys, the bubbling sensation in his lungs and the blood in his mouth amounted to a sentence of death. In the pages of this uncompromising memoir we accompany him to a Swiss sanitarium to recover his health, then back to the south of England for a period of convalescence, hoping that the dreadful symptoms do not return.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHoping - but not praying. For Powys, an atheist, there is no comfort in a belief in God and an immortal soul, and so he finds himself staring into the abyss. The experience, as so much else in the book, is recounted in powerfully vivid, lyrical prose: \"I would wake in the small hours of the morning swaddled in fear. With scared eyes I would peer into the darkness of my room, and into the unknown days before me, and come to realize, during those tense, suspended moments, how completely unattended, how intolerably alone we are, each one of us, like cattle herded into a merciless stockyard, to be driven into the shambles, separately, when our turn comes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnd yet, despite the soulless darkness, there is reason for existence. As we see in \u003ci\u003eSkin For Skin\u003c\/i\u003e, Powys finds it in enjoying life to the fullest, in feasting upon it while he has it, in squeezing the last drop of joy from each day. As the \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn Daily Eagle\u003c\/i\u003e concluded in its review of the book in 1925, \"Rugged, brutal and yet, in spots, tender, \u003ci\u003eSkin For Skin\u003c\/i\u003e makes life worth living after all.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Llewelyn Powys\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Conquistador Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.37d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780992078676\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLLEWELYN POWYS (1884-1939), the younger brother of authors John Cowper Powys and T. F. Powys, was an English essayist, memoirist, novelist and critic. After graduating from Cambridge University in 1906, he worked as a lecturer in America and a farmer in Kenya before devoting himself fully to writing. His many books include \u003ci\u003eEbony and Ivory\u003c\/i\u003e (1923), \u003ci\u003eBlack Laughter\u003c\/i\u003e (1924), \u003ci\u003eSkin For Skin\u003c\/i\u003e (1925), \u003ci\u003eApples Be Ripe\u003c\/i\u003e (1930), \u003ci\u003eA Pagan's Pilgrimage\u003c\/i\u003e (1931), \u003ci\u003eEarth Memories\u003c\/i\u003e (1934), \u003ci\u003eDorset Essays\u003c\/i\u003e (1935), \u003ci\u003eRats in the Sacristy\u003c\/i\u003e (1937) and \u003ci\u003eLove and Death\u003c\/i\u003e (1939).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Conquistador Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40530856312947,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":14.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7fe0c311-1547-4605-b3c1-cc0edd97aa1e.jpg?v=1666359949","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/skin-for-skin-9780992078676","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}