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Jennifer Egan

Manhattan Beach

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The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad—"propulsive, surprising, ravishing, and revelatory…a profound page-turner that will transport and transform every reader."—Booklist (starred review).
Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men.
‎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 once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the…
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  • Ellen Shubichshared an impression5 years ago

    In the end, I was more interested in what historical happenings motivated the author to write this novel rather than the fictional plot which seemed too 'arranged' so that everything would work
    out logically.

  • Habitante de libroshared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths

    A story of bravery and new beginnings.

Quotes

  • Habitante de librohas quoted6 years ago
    His sister’s transformation from aging tart to fussing nanny seemed almost instantaneous, like the flick of a kaleidoscope.
  • Habitante de librohas quoted6 years ago
    “You said the war was a joke. Boys poking each other with sticks.”
    “The men who make the wars, yes. But the ones who fight, those beautiful kids . . . they’re innocents.”
  • Habitante de librohas quoted6 years ago
    “If wishing could make men die, there’d be nary a live one left.”

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