The Manikin
A Novel
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ISBN10: 0312421389
ISBN13: 9780312421380
Trade Paperback
288 Pages
$21.00
CA$22.99
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
The Manikin is not a mannequin, but the curious estate of Henry Craxton in rural New York. Dubbed the "Henry Ford of Natural History," by 1917 Craxton has become world's preeminent taxidermist. Growing up in this magic box of a world—filled with eerily inanimate gibbons and bats, owls and peacocks, quetzals and crocodiles—is Peg Griswood, daughter of Craxton's newest housekeeper. Part coming-of-age story, part gothic mystery, part exploration of the intimate embrace between art and life, The Manikin is compulsively readable and beautifully written.
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Praise for The Manikin
"We haven't heard a voice like [this] since Ovid wrote his Metamorphoses."—The New York Times Book Review
"Scott's prose is sensitive and beautifully crafted. She writes with subtlety, compassion, and humor, and her characters are both eminently human and touched with magic and mystery."—The Washington Post Book World
"The wit, the magical prose, and the daring devices of Scott's writing create an enchantment . . . Readers of The Manikin will remember Scott's novel as a landscape of time, and will remember that her soundings of the depth of our natures are as accurate and revealing as Thoreau's measurements of Walden Pond."—Maureen Howard, The Nation
"Compulsively readable and original, stunningly imagined, beautifully written work of art."—Houston Chronicle
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About the author
Joanna Scott
