Manhattan Beach - Hardcover
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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1501184326
- ISBN 13 9781501184321
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages299
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Manhattan Beach
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Scribner
(2017)
ISBN 10: 1501184326
ISBN 13: 9781501184321
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED. Stated Scribner hardcover edition November 2017, first printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Jennifer Egan on the publisher's bound-in page. Book is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($28.00) and Fine. Illustrated endpapers. Protected in a new Brodart cover. 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. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 6389
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