The Manikin: A Novel - Hardcover

Scott, Joanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805039740 ISBN 13: 9780805039740

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1996

Synopsis

In The Manikin, Scott leaves behind the exquisitely rendered vision of Egon Schiele's turn-of-the-century Vienna that distinguished her much-praised novel Arrogance and turns with equally prismatic powers to the eerie rural confines outside of Rochester, New York, early in our own century. The "Manikin" is not a mannequin but a mansion, the estate of the late Henry Craxton Sr., the "Henry Ford of Natural History," founder of Craxton's Scientific Establishment, whose specialty, taxidermy, made him rich - as the world's largest supplier of fossils, dinosaur bones, and stuffed animals. The Manikin is full of the Founder's handicrafts - gibbons and bats, owls and peacocks, quetzals and crocodiles - and it is here that young Peg Griswood arrives with her mother, the new housekeeper, in 1917, and where she will spend her formative years amid the staring, silent creatures and among a staff of eccentric servants and groundskeepers.

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Review

"One reads "The Manikin in a kind of fever....It is packed with extraordinary bounty." --"Newsday
"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." --"The Nation
" One reads "The Manikin" in a kind of fever....It is packed with extraordinary bounty." -- "Newsday"
" 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." -- "The Nation"
“One reads "The Manikin" in a kind of fever....It is packed with extraordinary bounty.” —"Newsday"
“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.” —"The Nation"
"One reads "The Manikin" in a kind of fever....It is packed with extraordinary bounty." --"Newsday"
"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." --"The Nation"

One reads "The Manikin" in a kind of fever....It is packed with extraordinary bounty. "Newsday"

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. "The Nation""

"One reads The Manikin in a kind of fever....It is packed with extraordinary bounty." --Newsday

"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." --The Nation

About the Author

Joanna Scott is the author of several books of fiction, including the novels Tourmaline and Make Believe, and the story collection Various Antidotes. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and a Lannan Award, and lives with her family in Rochester, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0805039740
• ISBN 13: 9780805039740
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 276