Skin Deep by Phillipa McGuinness - ISBN: 9781760898731
Paperback
Skin: Barrier, receptor, beauty, identity, prejudice, healing, life itself.

Skin Deep

The inside story of our outer selves

  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    16 March 2022

Summary

A book about skin, that wonderful thing that covers our body, acting as both barrier and receptor to life.

This is a book about skin. The strange wonderfulness of our bodily covering. What happens to it when something goes wrong. How the world responds to imperfection and difference. It’s about how skin makes us who we are.

Skin serves as a barrier between us and the germs that would otherwise invade and destroy us. It regulates our temperature. Skin remains waterproof even wh…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781760898731
ISBN-10:1760898732
Author:Phillipa McGuinness
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Penguin Random House Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:16 March 2022
Weight:448g
Dimensions:234mm x 154mm x 25mm
About The Author

Phillipa McGuinness

Phillipa McGuinness is the author of The Year Everything Changed-2001, shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, and the editor of Copyfight. She has written for The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, Meanjin and Inside Story. A former book publisher, she lives in Sydney.

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