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Manhattan Beach : a novel  Cover Image Book Book

Manhattan Beach : a novel / Jennifer Egan.

Egan, Jennifer, (author.).

Summary:

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family with the Great Depression underway. 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 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 with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished.-- Adapted from book jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781476716732
  • ISBN: 1476716730
  • Physical Description: 438 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., ©2017.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Colored map on endpapers.
Subject: Young women > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Fiction.
Women divers > Fiction.
Irish Americans > Fiction.
Organized crime > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
Absentee fathers > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at scottsboropl.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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