The Bird Skinner (Hardcover) by Alice Greenway

from blodeuedd

On a bleak cold island Jim sits and is trying to forget how he used to live. When he had two legs, when he did something. Now he is hiding. His son does get him to write an article about Treasure Island so he does something at least instead of drinking gin all day. And I do get it, he loved his w...

from nomadreader

My thoughts: I knew very little about this novel when I began reading. I picked up a copy at ALA in June because of the praise for Greenway's first novel, White Ghost Girls. At first, I was enchanted with Greenway's prose, characters, and setting. I was curious how the storylines would connect an...

from muddyboy

The methodical telling of the story of a man's life during three periods 1917, 1943 and 1973. The 1943 section deals with his experiences in the South Seas during WW2 developing his skill as, you guessed it, a bird skinner, getting their bodies ready for museum exhibits. In the 1973 portion he ha...

from bookmuse56

Cantankerous ornithologist Jim Kennoway whose leg was recently amputated retreats to an island off the coast of Maine and just wants to be left alone. Instinctively the reader knows there is much more to Jim's orneriness than meets the eye as the elegiac language is often betrayed by restrained h...