a novel Egan, Jennifer creator author. text Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. nyu 2017 First Scribner hardcover edition. monographic eng

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438 pages : map ; 24 cm "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"-- Jennifer Egan. Map on endpapers. n-us-ny n-us--- Young women New York (State) New York Fiction World War, 1939-1945 United States Fiction FICTION / Literary FICTION / Historical FICTION / General PS3555.G292 M36 2017 813/.54 FIC019000 FIC014000 FIC000000 9781476716732 (hardcover) 2017029043 DLC 170623 20190502000244.0 19755325 eng