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The winter of 1846, when half of everything alive succumbed to the cold, has been stored for over eighty years in the mysterious mind common to the species, and though the owl didn't experience that winter, she remembers it-the poisonous smell of the air, the frost that pinned feathers to skin, the famine.
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An edition of The Manikin
(1996)
The manikin
a novel
1st ed.
by Joanna Scott
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This edition was published in 1996 by Henry Holt and Co. in New York.
Written in English
— 276 pages
A girl's coming of age in the strange world of stuffed animals. Peg Griswood lives in the manor of a famous taxidermist, surrounded by staring, silent creatures, looked after by eccentric servants and groundskeepers. Against this background, various human dramas are played out in what is basically a gothic novel of atmosphere. The setting is New York State early this century. By the author of Arrogance.
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The Manikin: A Novel
February 1996, Back Bay Books
Hardcover
in English
- 1st ed edition
0805039740 9780805039740
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The Manikin
First published in 1996
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Rochester (N.Y.)Work Description
The Manikin is not a mannequin, but the curious estate of Henry Craxton, Sr. in a rural western New York State. Dubbed the "Henry Ford of Natural History," by 1917 Craxton has become America's preeminent taxidermist. Into this magic box of a world--filled with eerily inanimate gibbons and bats, owls and peacocks, quetzals and crocodiles--wanders young Peg Griswood, daughter of Craxton's newest housekeeper. Part coming-of-age story, part gothic mystery, and part exploration of the intimate embrace between art and life, "The Manikin" is compulsively readable and beautifully written.
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| Library of Congress | PS3569.C636 M35 1996 |
| Dewey | 813/.54 |
The manikin
a novel
1st ed.
This edition was published in 1996 by Henry Holt and Co. in New York.
Edition Description
A girl's coming of age in the strange world of stuffed animals. Peg Griswood lives in the manor of a famous taxidermist, surrounded by staring, silent creatures, looked after by eccentric servants and groundskeepers. Against this background, various human dramas are played out in what is basically a gothic novel of atmosphere. The setting is New York State early this century. By the author of Arrogance.
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| April 1, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from Scriblio MARC record. |