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 |
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| 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 |
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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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