'This is a novel that will pull you in and under and carry you away
on its rip tides . . . Its resonances continue to wash over the
reader long after the novel ends' the Guardian '2017's Most
Anticipated Book . . . it will suck you into its orbit and remind
you just why it is you love reading' Stylist magazine 'This is a
novel that deserves to join the canon of New York stories' New York
Times Book Review 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. 'We're going
to see the sea,' Anna whispered. 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. 'Beautifully rendered . . . genuinely
affecting and handsomely constructed. It moves for all the right
reasons' Independent 'A gripping, modern version of a 19th century
novel . . . such an absorbing read' Evening Standard
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