Flesh

by Rick Skwiot

Signed by author. Hardcover with dust jacket. Easton Street Press, Inc. Rick Skwiot, Author. Total 216 pages. Winner of the Hemingway First Novel Award. Originally sold for $22.95. Printed in the USA.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1884953107
• ISBN13: 9781884953101
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Eaton Street Press
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Dynamic Duo

Rick Skwiot's novels, Flesh and Sleeping With Pancho Villa, are like a fine pair of custom-made Mexican boots, crafted by hand in the good old way, with love and expertise and an eye for the important detail. You will get a lot of flash and wear from these babies and every step will surprise and comfort you as you make your way along the camino real.

Great new fiction by Hemingway award winner

This book captured my interest on three levels. First, it's a murder mystery/adventure with a good old page-turning plot and interesting characters. Second, the Mexican setting is so well-developed that I feel I'm learning something about a country and people which is virtually a part of the U.S. by now.But the book's main distinction to me is the main character. It's clear why Flesh won the Hemingway Award: it's serious fiction with a male protagonist who's smart, tough, thoughtful, and unapologetically experienced with women. I spent enough time getting literature degrees to have had my fill of oversensitive, tentative male characters doing nothing but agonizing. I enjoy Skwiot as a throwback to the Hemingway and D.H. Lawrence tradition, and hope he's part of a postmodern movement away from the Iowa/New Yorker school of confused and impotent characters. I don't know how women will relate to Skwiot's writing, but it's a hell of a man's book.