Out of My Skin
by:
John Haskell (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374299095 (0374299099)
Publish date: February 3rd 2009
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 211
Edition language: English
I really thought I was going to like this novel. The whole Steve Martin impersonator thing hooked me, and I was further enticed with the narrative voice that Haskell creates for his narrator. However, I quickly grew tired of the narrator's neuroses and the author's repeated mining for thematic suppo...
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