{"product_id":"the-bird-skinner","title":"The Bird Skinner","description":"\u003cp\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. As a young man he worked 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 Jims consternation  yet she will capture his heart and the hearts of everyone she meets  irrevocably changing their lives.  Written in lush  lyrical proserich in island detail  redolent of Maine in summer and of the PacificThe Bird Skinner is wise and wrenching  an unforgettable masterwork from an extraordinarily skillful novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966061801525,"sku":"ByrdShop_0802121047","price":59.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780802121042.jpg?v=1770553471","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-bird-skinner","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}