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The Manikin

Joanna Scott

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Description:Joanna Scott goes from strength to strength with each new dazzling work of fiction she creates. A modern-day Hawthorne, she breathes life, in both her novels and her short stories, into past worlds—and otherworlds—that shine their beautiful light back upon her readers in the here and now, offering us truths about ourselves we could not have come to alone.In The Manikin, one of three finalists for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, 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 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, eventually made him rich—as the world’s largest supplier of stuffed animals, as well as fossils and dinosaur bones. 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. Part coming-of-age story, part gothic mystery, part exploration of the intimate embrace between art and life, The Manikin is a brilliant and memorable novel.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Manikin. To get started finding The Manikin, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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ISBN: 0805055916

Description: Joanna Scott goes from strength to strength with each new dazzling work of fiction she creates. A modern-day Hawthorne, she breathes life, in both her novels and her short stories, into past worlds—and otherworlds—that shine their beautiful light back upon her readers in the here and now, offering us truths about ourselves we could not have come to alone.In The Manikin, one of three finalists for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, 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 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, eventually made him rich—as the world’s largest supplier of stuffed animals, as well as fossils and dinosaur bones. 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. Part coming-of-age story, part gothic mystery, part exploration of the intimate embrace between art and life, The Manikin is a brilliant and memorable novel.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Manikin. To get started finding The Manikin, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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