Manhattan Beach / Jennifer Egan.
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.
Item details
- ISBN: 9781432843410
- ISBN: 1432843419
- Physical Description: 665 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Contents / Notes
General Note: | "Thorndike Press large print basic." |
Find similar items by subject
Genre: | Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. |
Currently available copies
- 15 out of 15 copies are currently available at PINES.
Holds
- 0 current holds on 15 total copies.
More Options
Show Only Available Copies
Library System: Library Branch Name
|
Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Athens Regional Library System: Athens-Clarke County Library |
LP EGAN (
Send Text) |
31001003539567 | LG-PRNT | Available | |
Desoto Trail Regional Library: Camilla-DeSoto Trail Regional Library |
LP EGAN, JENNIFER (
Send Text) |
31017006415654 | LG-PRNT | Available | |
Dougherty County Public Library: Central Branch |
LP EGAN, JENNIFER (
Send Text) |
31018904831133 | LG-PRNT | Available | |
Hall County Library System: Gainesville Branch |
LP FIC EGAN (
Send Text) |
31025003887932 | LG-PRNT | Available | |
Lee County Public Library: Leesburg Branch |
LP F EGAN (
Send Text) |
31032006198143 | LG-PRNT | Available | |
Live Oak Public Libraries: Oglethorpe Mall Library |
F EGAN (
Send Text) |
50539021708538 | LARGEPRINT | Available | |
Live Oak Public Libraries: Southwest Chatham Library |
F EGAN (
Send Text) |
50539021712209 | LARGEPRINT | Available | |
Live Oak Public Libraries: Tybee Library |
F EGAN (
Send Text) |
50539022044768 | LARGEPRINT | Available | |
Marshes of Glynn Libraries: Brunswick-Glynn County Library |
LP FIC EGAN (
Send Text) |
31061000391024 | Stacks | Available | |
Middle Georgia Regional Library: Washington Memorial Library |
LP EGAN J (
Send Text) |
31033010869505 | Adult Large Print | Available |
▼ Summaries & More
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.