a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton
Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas
An index of illustrated buildings is also provided
The people he meets along the way
William Shakespeare and Mark Twain
Animals Without Backbones California Book Award for Fiction (Silver) (2011) a very sick old manVolume One of a double volume. The story of the amoebas, sponges, corals, jellyfishes, worms of all kinds, starfishes, insects, and the variety of other invertebrates which make up 95 per cent of the animal kingdom. Sixty four pages of illustrations. Published 1951, Pelican Book. Binding of book is intact and fragile. Heavy shelfwear, foxing, some fraying and several waterstains on covers of book. Heavy tanning and foxing on edges of book. Moderate