Jennifer Egan

Manhattan Beach (Bok)

The long-awaited 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 a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children, and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy 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 as a Ziegfield folly, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a night club, she chances to meet Styles, the man she visited with her father before he vanished, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have been murdered. Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York, 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 magnificent novel by one of the greatest writers of our time.

Författare:	Jennifer Egan
Titel:	Manhattan Beach
Typ:	Bok
Bandtyp:	Pocket
Kategori:	Böcker/Skönlitteratur/Utländsk
Releasedatum:	2018-05-31
Registreringsdatum:	2018-02-14
Artikelnummer:	700724
Lagerstatus:	Beställningsvara Leveranstid: från 14 vardagar
EAN:	9781472150905
ISBN:	1472150905
Språk:	Engelska
Mått(BxHxD):	128x196x33 mm
Omfång:	412 sidor
Vikt:	407 gram
Titel:	Manhattan Beach
Förlag:	Little, Brown