Penguin Books Ltd The Face Of Another

The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident - a man who has lost his face and, with it, connection to other people.Even his wife is now repulsed by him. His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable.But soon he finds that such mask is more than a disguise: it is an alternate self - a self that is capable of anything.A remorseless meditation on nature, identity, and the social contract, THE FACE OF ANOTHER is an intellectual horror story of the highest order.