{"product_id":"the-bird-skinner-paperback","title":"The Bird Skinner - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlice Greenway\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize-winner Alice Greenway's new novel is a story of lost love, wartime, and rebirth, inspired by the career of her grandfather--noted ornithologist Jim Greenway--set on islands in Maine and the Solomons. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJim Kennoway was once an esteemed member of the ornithology department at the Museum of Natural History in New York, collecting and skinning birds as specimens. Slowing down from a hard-lived life and a recent leg amputation, Jim retreats to an island in Maine: to drink, smoke, and to be left alone. There, he thinks back to his youth, working for Naval Intelligence during World War II in the Solomon Islands. While spying on Japanese shipping from behind enemy lines, Jim befriended Tosca, a young islander who worked with him as a scout. Now, thirty years later, Tosca has sent his daughter Cadillac to stay with Jim in the weeks before she begins premedical studies at Yale. She arrives to Jim's consternation, yet she will capture his heart and the hearts of everyone she meets, irrevocably changing their lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten in lush, lyrical prose--rich in island detail, redolent of Maine in summer and of the Pacific--\u003ci\u003eThe Bird Skinner\u003c\/i\u003e is wise and wrenching, an unforgettable masterwork from an extraordinarily skillful novelist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Greenway\u003c\/b\u003e divides her time between the United States and Britain. Her first novel \u003ci\u003eWhite Ghost Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, set in Hong Kong in the 1960s, won the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Art Seidenbaum Award For First Fiction and was on the Orange Prize longlist. She currently lives in Scotland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 18, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761377804576,"sku":"9780802121059","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/bb79eddc807f02282e9178bdb767c85e.webp?v=1780205971","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-bird-skinner-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}