Live Flesh
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| Author | Ruth Rendell |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Crime, Mystery novel |
| Publisher | Hutchinson |
| Released | 27 February 1986 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 272 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-09-163680-9 (first edition, hardback) |
| Preceded by | The New Girlfriend |
| Followed by | Heartstones |
Live Flesh, is a psychological thriller by British author Ruth Rendell, published in 1986. It won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year, and has also been loosely adapted into a critically acclaimed film of the same name by Pedro Almodóvar.
[edit] Plot summary
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The novel's protagonist is Victor Jenner, sent to prison for shooting and crippling a police officer after an attempted rape. Ten years later, Jenner is released from prison and has to find himself a new life, only to discover that it is all too easy to slip back into the old one.
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