Take My Face-Jack Vance mystery novel, book review
Take My Face-Jack Vance mystery novel AKA: Flesh Mask (author’s preferred title) Mask of Flesh Take My Face is a 177 page novel that was written in 1948 and was first published in 1957 under the pseudonym of Peter Held. There were two other editions under the same title, one in 1958 (under Peter Held) and another in 1988 (under Jack Vance). When it was published as part of the Vance Integral Edition in 2002 it was under Vance's name and the title was changed to the author's preferred title The Flesh Mask. An excellent quality paperback was issued by Spatterlight February 2, 2018, making this once rare book readily available. Although The Flesh Mask is an early Vance work, it is still entertaining and well worth reading if you are a Vance fan. As Michael Andre-Driussi points out in his preface The Flesh Mask is a darker work and lacks Vance's wonderful wit and humor. It is also not as polished as Vance's great works and does not have much of his justly famous cle...