{"product_id":"bird-skinner","title":"Bird Skinner","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBird Skinner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAlice Greenway\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780802121059\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGrove Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2014\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Trade Paper\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003e Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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. \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\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Bird Skinner | Alice Greenway | Quality | 9780802121059 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1390910","offer_id":48753904386200,"sku":"1390910","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/41IqISqE_sL.jpg?v=1774067062","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/bird-skinner","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}