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Manhattan Beach : a novel / Jennifer Egan.

Egan, Jennifer, (author.).

Summary:

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family with the Great Depression underway. 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 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 with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished.-- Adapted from book jacket.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781476716732
  • ISBN: 1476716730
  • ISBN: 9781501183775
  • ISBN: 150118377X
  • ISBN: 9781476716749
  • ISBN: 1476716749
  • Physical Description: 438 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Scribner edition
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2017].

Content descriptions

General Note:
Colored map on endpapers.
Subject:
Young women > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > United States > Fiction.
Women divers > Fiction.
Irish Americans > Fiction.
Organized crime > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
Absentee fathers > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 94 of 99 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 4 of 4 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 99 total copies.
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Jacksonville Main Library FIC EGAN (Text) 36015000853032 Adult Fiction Available -
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