About BC Books Online
BC Books Online was created for anyone interested in BC-published books, and with librarians especially in mind. We'd like to make it easy for library staff to learn about books from BC publishers - both new releases and backlist titles - so you can inform your patrons and keep your collections up to date.
Our site features print books and ebooks - both new releases and backlist titles - all of which are available to order through regular trade channels. Browse our subject categories to find books of interest or create and export lists by category to cross-reference with your library's current collection.
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Description
Winner, Inaugural ReLit Award (2001)
Winner, 3-Day Novel-Writing Contest (1999)
Salacious, funny, and painfully emotive, Skin is a provocative and ruminative parable about our deep-rooted urge to ostracize the freakish and shun the disfigured among us. An unconventional love story, Bowman probes the surface to reveal deeper, more lingering impulses connected to desire, understanding, and love. It is only on very extraordinary occasions when beauty and the beast get together, but they do here. Skin is a cutting and startling debut novel.
Praise for Skin:
"Vancouver writer Bowman's prose has a light, tripping quality and a tone of gleeful gruesomeness." (Anne Fleming, The Georgia Straight)
"If Skin was filmed, there wouldn't be a dry eye in the house ... though most would be tears of laughter." (John Moore, The Vancouver Sun)
Contributor Notes
Bonnie Bowman's debut novel, 'Skin', won the inaugural ReLit Award. Her writing has been published in 'subTerrain', 'The Vancouver Review', 'Reader's Digest', and in the anthologies 'Exact Fare Only I' and 'Body Breakdowns'. Bonnie is also a songwriter, journalist, freelance writer and has been a finalist for the Western Magazine Awards. She was born in Toronto, where she now lives after a longish stint in Vancouver. 'Spaz' is her second novel.
