The Skin Palace by Jack O'Connell

The Skin Palace

Jack O'Connell

Bizarre, disturbing, but a compulsive read. The cast includes a teenager trying to make movies, a cinema which shows porn films and a stills photographer who is drawn into the action. The ending is completely unexpected.

Extract
She's just had a patch of weirdness, a run of strange hours. The outside events - the camera shop closing down, the riot outside the Skin Palace - don't really concern her. Everybody's got some story to tell about the day things went off-kilter. But what she really can't get a handle on is her reaction to the weirdness. Instead of being repelled, it's like she's been sucked in. She's sought these things out. She followed a strange man into a pornographic bookstore ... she's got no rationale for why she did these things. There's no precedent for it in her past. She's never sought out these kind of experiences before.

Parallels
  • Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Bladerunner - the film
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Violence
Explicit sexual content