The Manikin: A Novel - Hardcover

Scott, Joanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805039740 ISBN 13: 9780805039740

Verlag: Henry Holt & Co, 1996

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Book by Scott Joanna

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In The Manikin, Scott leaves behind the exquisitely rendered vision of Egon Schiele's turn-of-the-century Vienna that distinguished her much-praised novel Arrogance and turns with equally prismatic powers to the eerie rural confines outside of Rochester, New York, early in our own century. The "Manikin" is not a mannequin but a mansion, the estate of the late Henry Craxton Sr., the "Henry Ford of Natural History," founder of Craxton's Scientific Establishment, whose specialty, taxidermy, made him rich - as the world's largest supplier of fossils, dinosaur bones, and stuffed animals. The Manikin is full of the Founder's handicrafts - gibbons and bats, owls and peacocks, quetzals and crocodiles - and it is here that young Peg Griswood arrives with her mother, the new housekeeper, in 1917, and where she will spend her formative years amid the staring, silent creatures and among a staff of eccentric servants and groundskeepers.

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• Verlag: Henry Holt & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0805039740
• ISBN 13: 9780805039740
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 276