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The Manikin

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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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Joanna Scott is the author of seven books of fiction, including the novels Tourmaline and Make Believe, and the story collection Various Antidotes. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lannan Award, and lives with her family in Rochester, New York.

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ISBN:
9780312421380
Author:
Scott, Joanna
Publisher:
Picador USA
Subject:
General
Subject:
Rochester (N.Y.)
Subject:
Taxidermy
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
FIC043000
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Edition Description:
Picador USA
Publication Date:
December 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
288
Dimensions:
8.50x5.55x.82 in. .82 lbs.
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