Out of My Skin A Novel [Paperback]

Los Angeles. A would-be movie reviewer, looking for romance, takes an assignment to write a magazine article about celebrity look-alikes. After getting to know a Steve Martin impersonator, the writer decides to undertake his own process of transformation and becomes not Steve Martin but a version of himgraceful, charming, at home in the world. Safe in the guise of Steve, he begins to fall in love. And that's when Steve takes over. Set in the capital of illusion, this is a story of one man's journey into paradiseand his attempt to come out the other side.

JOHN HASKELLis the author ofAmerican Purgatorioand of the short-story collectionI Am Not Jackson Pollock. A contributor to the radio programThe Next Big Thing, he lives in Brooklyn, New York.

The best new novel I've read in several years. Benjamin Kunkel, author of Indecision

Gutsy, weirdly engrossing . . . This strange, moving book has done just what a first novel should. Taylor Antrim, The New York Times Book Review

My novel of the year. Geoff Dyer, The Independent (London)