Skin Game: A Memoir

Caroline Kettlewell

Macmillan, Jun 7, 2000 - Biography & Autobiography - 192 pages

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 disorder. "[This] mesmeric memoir examines the obsession with cutting that is believed to afflict somewhere around two million Americans, nearly all of them female," Francine Prose noted in Elle. "[Kettlewell's] language soars and its intensity deepens whenever she is recalling the lost joys and the thrilling sensation of sharp steel against her tender skin."

Contents

• II: 1
• III: 7
• IV: 14
• V: 20
• VI: 22
• VII: 26
• VIII: 36
• IX: 42
• X: 45
• XI: 50
• XII: 56
• XIII: 60
• XIV: 64
• XV: 67
• XVI: 69
• XVII: 75
• XVIII: 81
• XIX: 83
• XX: 89
• XXI: 95
• XXII: 103
• XXIII: 105
• XXIV: 110
• XXV: 120
• XXVI: 124
• XXVII: 127
• XXVIII: 130
• XXIX: 137
• XXX: 141
• XXXI: 147
• XXXII: 149
• XXXIII: 155
• XXXIV: 161
• XXXV: 168
• XXXVI: 173

About the author

Caroline Kettlewell graduated from Williams College and hold a master's degree in writing from George Mason University. She is the author of the memoir Skin Game. She and her husband live with their son in Virginia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Skin Game: A Memoir
• Author: Caroline Kettlewell
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2000
• ISBN: 0312263937, 9780312263935
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Medical (incl. Patients); Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography / Women; Psychology / Psychopathology / Bipolar Disorder; Psychology / Psychopathology / Compulsive Behavior; Psychology / Psychopathology / General; Self-Help / Compulsive Behavior / Hoarding