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Skin Lane
 
 
Skin Lane (Paperback)
by Neil Bartlett (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars 5 customer reviews (5 customer reviews)

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Bartlett is a storyteller well aware of how to exert control over his audience. He wastes little time before demonstrating that he can, in a moment, stop your heart, or break it; possibly even, you suspect, rip it out and show it to you... Skin Lane welds itself to your hands from first to last. Textured, teeming with menace and, at the end, deeply moving, it is an extremely fine piece of writing --Times

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Brilliantly eerie... constantly surprising... captures vividly the atmosphere of the changing London of the 60s... But it s in his depiction of a specific kind of helpless and fearful love that Bartlett excels --Guardian

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Astounding!, 7 Sep 2007
Skin Lane is very quiet, and very profound. It tells the story of Mr F, who works in Skin Lane making fur coats. His is a very banal and orderly existance, until one night he dreams (a thing he never does) of a naked boy hanging in his bathroom. The boy in question, nicknamed 'Beauty', works with Mr F, who becomes obsessed with him. It it extremely moving and there are minor references and parallels to Beauty and the Beast. The ending is astounding, as is everything that leads up to it. Bartlett has a very eerie way of connecting past events with the present. This book is definately worth reading!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Frustratingly poor, 31 Jan 2008
Skin Lane could have been gripping and full of suspense; however it was dragged out and predictable. The climax was non existent and I was left frustrated and annoyed at having wasted two weeks in reading the book.
As well as the painfully slow build up, I found Bartlett's narration very annoying. Instead of leading the reader into their own views and imagination, the author would chip in with comments such as `I don't know about you but I think.......' And `you are now probably thinking that........' for me this was too much and I found I was not left to make up my own mind on situations. Also there could have been more subtle and intriguing links made to Beauty and the Beast, but calling one of the characters Beauty! To me this was too obvious.
This could have been a great short story, but I felt it was over worked and ended up being rather poor. Don't believe Will Self's endorsement!!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars millefeuille, 27 Mar 2008
NB's best written work. It demands a patience of the reader which reflects the endurance of it's protagonist.
Wonderfully suspenseful, in an old fashioned, crafted way. Sublimely layered story telling which takes you to the brink so many times...
It is slow and intense, this will keep your attention.
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