
Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin , interweaves past and present--what he refers to as his naked history--in a series of episodes that tell the story of a volatile life marked by pitiful losses, as well as a more elusive, overwhelming,...
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Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves past and present--what he refers to as his "naked history"--in a series of episodes that tell the story of a volatile life marked by pitiful losses, as well as a more elusive, overwhelming,...



Second Skin is perhaps the finest achievement of one of our most remarkable American writers. It is the story, at moments comical, at others horrifying, of an 'unlikely' man's survival in a destructive world.





