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The Skin Artist .book 

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The morning Bill Becker awakes to find the butterfly tattoo bleeding on his chest, his upwardly mobile life begins its downward spiral. Exiled from a corporate career and from the failed marriage he left behind in a gated Charlotte community, Bill becomes obsessed with a tattooed dancer named Lucy, who is running from a trauma buried deep in her own past. Lucy and Bill wrap themselves in new skins of ink, wrought by the same artist, a shaman who convinces them that every design will alter their future. Ultimately, both Bill and Lucy must leave the city and return to the Carolina countryside to confront the skins they have shed many years ago.

“Out of America’s age of information, image, tattoo, and Adam and Eve eroticism comes a tightly written novel about addiction, family, and religion.
The Skin Artist is at once smooth-deep literary and fast-eddy suspenseful. George Hovis’s first novel—it never slows down one iota—is an extraordinary debut.”
—Clyde Edgerton, author of The Floatplane Notebooks and Raney

“George Hovis displays a world we know and try to turn our gaze from. But the story is too powerful, the forces of destruction too strong, and we readers watch, hypnotized, as the descent gathers friends, lovers, and family into its vortex. Can such dark passages lead to hope?”
—Fred Chappell, author of Dagon and As If It Were

The Skin Artist is the complex saga of a young man’s search for his own identity on the dark side of the New South—it’s hard to believe this is a first novel. Hovis has created an old-fashioned morality tale set against some of the most garish manifestations of the Sunbelt.”
—Lee Smith, author of Dimestore and Guests on Earth

“Equal parts psychological complication and harrowing action, a pull-no-punches tale of one man’s reckoning with his mistakes. An unforgettable read.”
—Leah Stewart, author of What You Don’t Know About Charlie Outlaw

  • Dimensions 13.97 x 2.51 x 21.59 cm
    Language English
    Print length 394 pages
    Book Type Paperback, Illustrated
    ISBN-10 1970137932
    ISBN-13 978-1970137934
    Publication date 6 May 2019

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The Skin Artist .book

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