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1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages) : illustrations |
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Jim Kennoway was once an esteemed member of the ornithology department at the Museum of Natural History in New York, collecting and skinning birds as specimens. Slowing down from a hard-lived life and a recent leg amputation, Jim retreats to an island in Maine: to drink, smoke, and to be left alone. As a young man he worked for Naval Intelligence during World War II in the Solomon Islands. While spying on Japanese shipping from behind enemy lines, Jim befriended Tosca, a young islander who worked with him as a scout. Now, thirty years later, Tosca has sent his daughter Cadillac to stay with Jim in the weeks before she begins premedical studies at Yale. She arrives to Jim's consternation, yet she will capture his heart and the hearts of everyone she meets, irrevocably changing their lives. Written in lush, lyrical prose'rich in island detail, redolent of Maine in summer and of the Pacific'The Bird Skinner is wise and wrenching, an unforgettable masterwork from an extraordinarily skillful novelist. |
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Forced to abandon his ornithology work after being wounded in combat, World War II veteran Jim Carroway secludes himself on a tiny island off the coast of Maine, where an old friend's captivating daughter draws him out of isolation during the month before she starts college. |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans -- Fiction.
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Ornithologists -- Fiction.
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Islands -- Maine -- Fiction.
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Veterans -- Fiction.
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Depression, Mental -- Fiction.
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Medical students -- Fiction.
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Depression, Mental. |
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Islands. |
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Medical students. |
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Ornithologists. |
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Veterans. |
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Maine -- Fiction.
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Maine. |
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Historical fiction.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Greenway, Alice. Bird skinner New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2014] 9780802121042 (NjBwBT)bl2013049546 (OCoLC)827974265 |
| ISBN |
9780802193636 : $15.99 |
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0802193633 : $15.99 |
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