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Title: A Change of Skin by Carlos Fuentes, Sam Hileman ISBN: 0-224-61457-6 Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group) Pub. Date: 31 December, 1968 Format: Hardcover

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Flawed but interesting delve into Mexico's past
Comment: This is a strange, rambling, but entertaining pastiche which is characteristic Fuentes. Even his best works are uneven, and this novel is decidedly so; but Freddy Lambert's narrative drama is sometimes splendid. The plot concerns a group of friends who trade various ideas and histories with one another (as well as sex) on a long journey into a metaphorical past. On the way, there are long asides regarding the conquest of Mexico, fascism, and literature. All goes well until the conclusion: Fuentes inverts the novel by repeating its major incidents with a set of different (and symbolic) characters, in a sequence which is neither insightful nor interesting. In a way, the novel is a very good summation of its author: the man who said "I am abundant," in reference to his virility has always had more ideas that he can edit.