The Bird Skinner
Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winner Alice Greenway's new novel is a story of lost love, wartime, and rebirth, inspired by the career of her grandfather-noted ornithologist Jim Greenway-set on islands in Maine and the Solomons.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. There, he thinks back to his youth, working for Naval Intelligence during World War II in the Solomon Islands. While spying…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8021-2105-9
- EAN: 9780802121059
- Produktnummer: 15975345
- Verlag: Grove Atlantic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H20.6 cm x B13.7 cm x D2.5 cm 340 g
- Gewicht: 340
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Alice Greenway divides her time between the United States and Britain. Her first novel White Ghost Girls, set in Hong Kong in the 1960s, won the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award For First Fiction and was on the Orange Prize longlist. She currently lives in Scotland.
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