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Skin Game : A Memoir
Skin Game A Memoir
Author: Caroline Kettlewell
Caroline Kettlewell’s autobiography reveals a girl whose feelings of pain and alienation led her to seek relief in physically hurting herself, from age twelve into her twenties. Skin Game employs clear language and candid reflection to grant general readers as well as students an uncensored profile of a complex and unsettling disord...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780312263935
ISBN-10: 0312263937
Publication Date: 6/7/2000
Pages: 192
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  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
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3.2 stars, based on 46 ratings
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Book Type: Paperback
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obsidianfire avatar reviewed Skin Game : A Memoir on + 133 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 11
While I find the subject matter extremely interesting, this book fell flat to me. Her writing style was to analytical, when it seems she is just trying to tell her story. Instead it reads more like a textbook study of cutting than a heartfelt outpouring of her story. Then again, she does say in her book that she often had a hard time connecting with herself, so maybe that's why.
Heather-and-Raven avatar reviewed Skin Game : A Memoir on + 20 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
This book wasn't interesting, explorative, mind-opening, or even easy to follow. It was just a blathering of "ME ME ME" and not even a major percentage of the book focused on the subject matter of cutting. I didn't feel for or relate to the author, I simply wanted it to be over. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone- not someone who is hoping for help in the subject matter, not someone interested in memoirs, not someone who even wants an escape. I'd recommend it for the recycling bin.
reviewed Skin Game : A Memoir on + 11 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A very good, insightful read. Very well written, in a very truthful way. Interesting, because there are no other first-person accounts on what it's like to be a cutter.
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