Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - NEW YORK'S ONE BOK, ONE NEW YORK PICK

The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad--now available at a great value

Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vogue, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA TODAY, Time - A New York Times Notable Book

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men.

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 once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished.

A magnificent achievement, at once a suspenseful noir intrigue and a transporting work of lyrical beauty and emotional heft (The Boston Globe), Egan's first foray into historical fiction makes you forget you're reading historical fiction at all (Elle). Manhattan Beach takes us into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men in a dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world.

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