Thousands of prices just dropped across Thryft
Our price drop is now live! Find lowered prices on thousands of one-of-a-kind finds across Thryft
Free delivery on all orders above $30
Get 10% off all year round! Join Thryft Club
Get 10% off all year round and $10 off your next order! Join Thryft Club

This item is sold out

Get an email when a matching copy is available again.

Lost Memory of Skin

Russell Banks

Which copies would you like?
Condition and budgetAny condition · No price limit

Excludes delivery. This filters future availability alerts; it is not a price-drop alert.

We check inventory once a day. We’ll email you once when we find a matching copy. Copies aren’t reserved. This does not sign you up for marketing emails.

Sale

Lost Memory of Skin

Regular price Save up to 30%
Unit price
per
Compare to estimated retail price: S$22.38  

Redemption, morality, and societal outcasts.

Recommendation: "Lost Memory of Skin" is an intense exploration of societal outcasts and their struggles for redemption. Banks' thought-provoking narrative highlights how the Kid is perceived by society and the Professor's role in the Kid's attempt for reintegration. It is a story that explores the complex issues of morality, justice, and redemption, making it a must-read for those interested in social commentary.

  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2012)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (Shortlist) (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
Sale

Lost Memory of Skin

Regular price Save up to 30%
Unit price
per
Compare to estimated retail price: S$22.38  
Condition guide
ISBN: 9781846685774
Author: Russell Banks
Publisher: Clerkenwell Press
Date of Publication: 2013-01-24
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.6
(rated by 6692 readers)

Description

Uncompromising and complex, Lost Memory of Skin is the story of The Kid, a young sex offender recently released from prison and forced to live beneath a South Florida causeway. When The Professor, a man of enormous intellect and appetite, takes The Kid under his wing, his own startling past will cause upheavals in both of their worlds. At once lyrical, witty, and disturbing, Banks’s extraordinary novel showcases his abilities as a world-class storyteller as well as his incisive understanding of the dangerous contradictions and hypocrisies of modern American society.
 

Redemption, morality, and societal outcasts.

Recommendation: "Lost Memory of Skin" is an intense exploration of societal outcasts and their struggles for redemption. Banks' thought-provoking narrative highlights how the Kid is perceived by society and the Professor's role in the Kid's attempt for reintegration. It is a story that explores the complex issues of morality, justice, and redemption, making it a must-read for those interested in social commentary.

  • PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2012)
  • Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (Shortlist) (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

You might enjoy this if…

View book details