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Manhattan Beach : a novel
- Title
- Manhattan Beach : a novel / Jennifer Egan.
- Author
- Egan, Jennifer
- Publication
- New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2017]
- ©2017
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-9873 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 438 pages : map; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The long-awaited, daring, and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years 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 had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished. Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller, Egan's first historical novel is a masterpiece, a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men, America and the world. Manhattan Beach is a spectacular novel by one of the greatest writers of our time"--
- Subjects
- Organized crime
- Young women
- World War (1939-1945)
- Missing persons > Fiction
- FICTION > Literary
- Organized crime > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
- Fiction
- 1939-1945
- Domestic fiction
- FICTION > General
- FICTION > Historical
- United States
- Irish Americans > Fiction
- New York (State) > New York
- Women divers > Fiction
- Historical fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Fiction
- Young women > New York (State) > New York > Fiction
- Absentee fathers > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Note
- Colored map on endpapers.
- Awards (note)
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2017, Booklist Top of the List for Fiction, 2017, Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR [and others].
- Call Number
- JFE 17-9873
- ISBN
- 9781476716732
- 1476716730
- LCCN
- 2017029043
- OCLC
- 975110465
- Author
- Egan, Jennifer, author.
- Title
- Manhattan Beach : a novel / Jennifer Egan.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Edition
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, 2017, Booklist Top of the List for Fiction, 2017, Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR [and others].
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-9873