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Mysterious Skin Book

The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life?so runs the catchy opening to Heim's impressive first novel. The speaker is Brian Lackey, now a troubled teenager, once an introverted kid growing up scared in the small town of Hutchinson, Kans. The reason for his memory lapse and his fear, as we and Brian learn during the course of the novel, turns out not to be the space aliens that he first suspects, but his molestation at the hands of his Little League coach. The key to Brian's reclamation of those lost hours is homosexual hustler Neil McCormick?the slugger on that Little League team and an accomplice to Brian's sexual abuse. Working its way over the course of a decade toward Brian and Neil's reunion, the narrative unfolds through chapters whose points of view alternate among Brian, Neil and a handful of their siblings and confidants. Heim makes numerous freshman mistakes, including a relatively static narrative, prominent characters who outlive their...Read More

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    At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five-hour period of time. During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him and he begins to believe that he may have been the victim of an alien encounter. Neil McCormick is fully aware of the events from that summer of 1981. Wise beyond his years curious about his developing sexuality Neil found what he perceived to be love and guidance from his baseball coach. Now ten years later he is a teenage hustler a terrorist of sorts unaware of the dangerous path his life is taking. His recklessness is governed by idealized memories of his coach memories that unexpectedly change when Brian comes to Neil for help and ultimately the truth.

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    Mysterious Skin : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers Inc : 9780060841690 : 0060841699 : 13 Dec 2013 : "Wrenching . . . powerfully sensuous.""  â?? New York Times ""As searing and unforgettable as an electric shock."" â??Kirkus Reviews At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire fiveâ??hour period of time. During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough to explain what happened to him, and he begins to believe that he may have ..."

  • 0060841699
  • 9780060841690
  • Scott Heim
  • 12 October 2005
  • HarperCollins
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 304
  • Film tie-in edition
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