![]() The distinctive environments of disparate islands, interwoven with alternately romantic and horrific flashbacks, create a beautiful, ultimately painful story as haunting as its settings. Written in lush, lyrical prose-rich in island detail, redolent of Maine in summer and of the Pacific- The Bird Skinner is wise and wrenching, an unforgettable masterwork from an extraordinarily skillful novelist. She arrives to Jim's consternation, yet she will capture his heart and the hearts of everyone she meets, irrevocably changing their lives. Now, thirty years later, Tosca has sent his daughter Cadillac to stay with Jim in the weeks before she begins premedical studies at Yale. While spying on Japanese shipping from behind enemy lines, Jim befriended Tosca, a young islander who worked with him as a scout. ![]() ![]() As a young man he worked for Naval Intelligence during World War II in the Solomon Islands. 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. ![]() ![]() Jim 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. ![]()
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