Manhattan Beach : a novel / Jennifer Egan.
| Author/creator | Egan, Jennifer author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First Scribner hardcover edition. |
| Publication | New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2017] |
| Copyright Date | ©2017 |
| Description | 438 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Abstract | 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. |
| General note | Colored map on endpapers. |
| Genre/form | Historical fiction. |
| Genre/form | Domestic fiction. |
| Genre/form | Fiction. |
| Genre/form | Historical fiction. |
| Genre/form | Domestic fiction. |
| Genre/form | Historical fiction. |
| LCCN | 2017029043 |
| ISBN | 9781476716732 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1476716730 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
| Standard identifier# | 40027486020 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS3555 .G292 M36 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |