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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