* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction *
New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book and a
Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017 * Longlisted for the
National Book Award for Fiction * Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR,
The Guardian, Vogue, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, Philadelphia
Inquirer, BookPage, Bustle, Southern Living, and St. Louis
Post-Dispatch "Immensely satisfying...an old-fashioned page-turner,
tweaked by this witty and sophisticated writer...Egan is masterly
at displaying mastery...she works a formidable kind of magic."
-Dwight Garner, The New York Times 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.
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***Jennifer Egan's latest novel THE CANDY HOUSE is coming April
2022, the long-awaited sibling novel to A Visit from the Goon
Squad***
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