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On the edge of the Antarctic Circle, in the years after World War One, a steamship approaches a desolate island, far from all shipping lanes. On board is a young man on his way to assume the post of weather observer, to live in solitude for a year at the end of the earth. But on shore he finds no trace of the man whom he has been sent to replace, instead just a deranged castaway who has witnessed a horror he refuses to name. The rest is woods, a deserted cabin, rocks, silence, and the surrounding sea. Then night begins to fall.
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18 editions · 4 languages- Ebook · English · 2009Cold SkinCanongate Books · 9781847676207
- Paperback · English · 2007Cold SkinCanongate U.S. · 240 pages · 9781841958835
- Other · English · 2016Cold SkinCanongate Books · 240 pages · 9781782117179
- Other · English · 2009Cold skinPenguin Canada · 233 pages · 9780143170310
- Other · English · 2007Cold skinCanongate · 9781841959009
- Other · English · 2006Cold skinCanongate · 233 pages · 9781841956886
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