Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders. Barely beyond childhood himself, the Kid is in many ways an innocent, trapped by impulses and foolish choices. Enter the Professor, a man who has built his own life on secrets and lies. A university sociologist of enormous size and intellect, he finds in the Kid the perfect subject for his research on homelessness and reoffending sex offenders. The two men forge a tentative partnership. But when the Professor's past resurfaces and threatens to destroy his carefully constructed world, the balance in the two men's relationship shifts. Suddenly, the Kid must reconsider everything he has come to believe, and choose what course of action to take when faced with a new kind of moral decision.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Profile Books
ISBN-13
9781846685774
eBay Product ID (ePID)
138587023
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lost Memory of Skin
Author
Russell Banks
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2013
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
348g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Russell Banks
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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