The Manikin
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: February 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780805039740
Subjects: Taxidermy; Popular American Fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction; General; Bildungsromane; Rochester (N.Y.)
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.