{"subtitle": "A Novel", "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Stephen Blake is a good man blown in bad directions. He and girlfriend Siobhan, best friend Tommy, IRA terrorist Stapleton, and a particularly American sort of psychopath named Dade, are all on a collision course somewhere on the road between the dive bars of New York, and the pitiless desert of the Southwest."}, "title": "American skin", "covers": [2124174], "first_publish_date": "2006", "key": "/works/OL2122066W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL264145A"}}], "dewey_number": ["808.83/872"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Irish", "Fiction", "Immigrants", "Bank robberies", "Murderers", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general", "Irish americans, fiction", "United states, fiction"], "genres": ["/tags/OL175T"], "latest_revision": 13, "revision": 13, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:56:59.694679"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-09-04T10:07:06.875189"}}