Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOK CLUB PICK - WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION NOMINE - 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 I, 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.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER - A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOK CLUB PICK - WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION NOMINE - 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 I, 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.

MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD was born in 1983 and grew up in Orange County, California. Her highly acclaimed debut novel, Seating Arrangements, was a national best seller and the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize as well as a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford. In winter 2012, she was a resident at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Tin House, The Paris Review Daily, The Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. Her story La Moretta was a 2012 National Magazine Award finalist.

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ISBN 13	9781984897701
ISBN 10	1984897705
Title	Great Circle
Author	Maggie Shipstead
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2022-04-05
Number of pages	672
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
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