Winner of the Los Angeles Times Award for First Fiction, Alice Greenway's second novel is "a beautiful, ultimately painful story as haunting as its settings" ( Publishers Weekly). Alice Greenway Adult content: No Language: English Has Image Descriptions: No Categories: Literature and Fiction Submitted By: Bookshare Staff Usage Restrictions: This is a copyrighted book. Yet she will capture his heart and that of everyone she meets, irrevocably changing their lives. The Bird Skinner: A Novel View larger image. She arrives to Jim's consternation, bringing with her a flood of troubling memories. Now Tosca has sent his daughter to stay with Jim before she begins premedical studies at Yale. (Grove Press, 16.) It’s 1973 and Jim Kennoway, the ornithologist and World War II veteran at the center of Greenway’s atmospheric novel, has left New York. Thirty years ago, while stationed in the Solomon Islands, Jim befriended Tosca, a young islander who worked with him as a scout. From his perch, he listens for birdcalls and thinks back on his youth, his romance with his now deceased wife, his work for the American Museum of Natural History, and earlier, for Naval Intelligence in the South Pacific. All he wants is to drink, smoke, and be left alone. On a weather-beaten island in Maine, a birder and WWII vet confronts his past in this "atmospheric and engrossing" novel ( People).Īfter a recent leg amputation, ornithologist and World War II veteran Jim Kennoway retreats to an island in Penobscot Bay, off the coast of Maine.
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