02817cam a2200433 i 4500 25171 25171 19755325 MeVbMML 20190502000244.0 170623s2017 nyub 000 1 eng 2017029043 9781476716732 (hardcover) 9781476716756 (ebook) DLC eng rda DLC DLC pcc n-us-ny n-us--- PS3555.G292 M36 2017 813/.54 23 FIC019000 FIC014000 FIC000000 bisacsh Egan, Jennifer, author. 3350 Manhattan Beach : a novel / Jennifer Egan. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2017. 438 pages : map ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Map on endpapers. "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"-- Provided by publisher. Young women New York (State) New York Fiction. 2817 World War, 1939-1945 United States Fiction. 3351 FICTION / Literary. bisacsh 469 FICTION / Historical. bisacsh 512 FICTION / General. bisacsh 1524 Domestic fiction. 821 Historical fiction. gsafd 569 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BOOK ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2017-11-08 28.00 6 0 EGAN 37186 2019-05-08 2019-05-08 2017-11-08 BOOK