The bird skinner /
Alice Greenway.
- xvi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subtitle from dust jacket.
Forced to abandon his ornithology work after being wounded in combat, World War II veteran Jim Carroway secludes himself on a tiny island off the coast of Maine, where an old friend's captivating daughter draws him out of isolation during the month before she starts college.
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Veterans--Fiction. Depression, Mental--Fiction. Medical students--Fiction. Islands--Maine--Fiction. Ornithologists--Fiction.