The Manikin
Joanna Scott
The Manikin is not a mannequin, but the curious estate of Henry Craxton, Sr. in a rural western New York State. Dubbed the "Henry Ford of Natural History," by 1917 Craxton has become America's preeminent taxidermist. Into this magic box of a world-filled with eerily inanimate gibbons and bats, owls and peacocks, quetzals and crocodiles-wanders young Peg Griswood, daughter of Craxton's newest housekeeper. Part coming-of-age story, part gothic mystery, and part exploration of the intimate embrace between art and life, Joanna Scott's The Manikin is compulsively readable and beautifully written.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Macmillan + ORM
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN-13
- 9781250096500
- Genre
- FictionCrime & Thriller
- Topics
- Coming of ageArt and mortalityGothic mystery
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for FictionShortlistedMajor(1997)
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