The mannequin makers
Subtitle: a novel
By: Craig Cliff
Edition: First US edition.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781571311276
Subjects: Window dressers; Interpersonal relations; Twins; New Zealand fiction; City and town life; Fiction
Description: Marumaru, New Zealand. Colton Kemp, a department store window-dresser, is at home, watching his beloved wife die in premature childbirth. Tormented by grief, he hatches a plan to make his name and thwart his rival, the silent and gifted Carpenter: over the next sixteen years he will raise his newborn twins in secrecy and isolation, to become human mannequins in the worlds most lifelike window display.
Notes: "First published by Random House New Zealand."--Title page verso.