The Manikin
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Picador
Published: December 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312421380
Subjects: General; Fiction / General; Rochester (N.Y.); Taxidermy; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: The winter of 1846, when half of everything alive succumbed to the cold, has been stored for over eighty years in the mysterious mind common to the species, and though the owl didn't experience that winter, she remembers it-the poisonous smell of the air, the frost that pinned feathers to skin, the famine.