| Description |
204 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Originally published by Warner Books in 2001. |
| Summary |
Winner of the 2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection: In Skin folk, with fifteen works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best spinning tales like "Precious," in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. In "A Habit of Waste," a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance; days later she's shocked to see her former body climbing onto a public bus. In "The Glass Bottle Trick," the young protagonist ignores her intuition regarding her new husband's superstitions--to horrifying consequences. Hopkinson's unique and vibrant sense of pacing and dialogue sets a steady beat for stories that illustrate why she received the 1999 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Entertaining, challenging, and alluring, Skin Folk is not to be missed. |
| Contents |
Riding the red -- Money tree -- Something to hitch meat to -- Snake -- Under glass -- Glass bottle trick -- Slow cold chick -- Fisherman -- Tan-Tan and Dry Bone -- Greedy choke puppy -- Habit of waste -- And the lillies-them a-blow -- Whose upward flight I love -- Ganger (ball lightning) -- Precious. |
| Subject |
Life on other planets -- Fiction.
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Life on other planets. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
West Indies -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction.
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West Indies. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
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Science fiction, Canadian. |
| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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Science fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Short stories.
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| ISBN |
9781504052764 (trade paperback) |
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1504052765 (trade paperback) |
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