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Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK - WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION NOMINEE - The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost: an epic trip--through Prohibition and World War II, from Montana to London to present-day Hollywood--and you'll relish every minute (People).

After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles.

A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two women's fates--and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times--collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead.

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Maggie Shipstead is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Astonish Me is her most recent book.

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ISBN 13 9780525656975
ISBN 10 0525656979
Title Great Circle
Author Maggie Shipstead
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Year published 2021-05-04
Number of pages 608
Prizes Short-listed for Booker Prize 2021, Short-listed for Historical Writers' Association Non-Fiction Crown Award 2022, Short-listed for Women's Prize for Fiction 2022
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.