Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan
9781476716732
Hardcover
438pp
Fiction
Scribner
2017
condition: very good with light edgewear, there is light bumping at the tops of the edges, the pages are tight and clean, the dust jacket is in good condition with light edgewear
Synopsis: Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. 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 once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished.
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