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Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead
Relentlessly exciting . My top recommendation for this summer. --Ron Charles, The Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELER - LONGLISTED FOR THE BOKER PRIZE - A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOK CLUB PICK - The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost--Great Circle soars and dips with dizzying flair . an expansive story that covers more than a century and seems to encapsulate the whole wide world (Boston Globe).A masterpiece . One of the best books I've ever read. --J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Friends and Strangers
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 is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Astonish Me is her most recent book.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780593459416 |
| ISBN 10 | 0593459415 |
| Title | Great Circle |
| Author | Maggie Shipstead |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Diversified Publishing |
| Year published | 2021-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 960 |
| 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. |
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