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Manhattan Beach : a novel by Jennifer Egan; Friends of the Library is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 Liv

Who reads Manhattan Beach : a novel?

Author

Jennifer Egan; Friends of the Library

Publisher

Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472150875

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.79 / 5 (3,473 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14