Manhattan Beach
of Jennifer Egan (Goodreads Author)
Description
Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men.âYears later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her fatherâs life, the reasons he might have vanished.With the atmosphere of a noir thriller, Eganâs first historical novel follows Anna and Styles into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men. Manhattan Beach is a deft, dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world.
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 438 pages
- Publisher Scribner
- Publication Date October 3rd 2017
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9781476716732
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
- Scenario ['Brooklyn, New York City, New York (United States)']
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