{"product_id":"manhattan-beach-1","title":"Jennifer Egan: Manhattan Beach [2017] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e'This is a novel that will \u003cb\u003epull you in and under and carry you away\u003c\/b\u003e on its rip tides . . . Its resonances continue to wash over the reader \u003cb\u003elong after the novel ends\u003c\/b\u003e' \u003ci\u003ethe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'2017's Most Anticipated Book \u003c\/b\u003e. . . it will\u003cb\u003e suck you into its orbit \u003c\/b\u003eand remind you just\u003cb\u003e why it is you love reading' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eStylist magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is a novel that \u003cb\u003edeserves to join the canon \u003c\/b\u003eof New York stories' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eA Visit from the Goon Squad\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eManhattan Beach\u003c\/i\u003e opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'We're going to see the sea,' Anna whispered. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYears 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMesmerizing, 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. \u003ci\u003eManhattan Beach\u003c\/i\u003e is a magnificent novel by one of the greatest writers of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautifully rendered . . . genuinely affecting and handsomely constructed. It moves for all the right reasons'\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndependent      \u003c\/i\u003e        \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A gripping, modern version of a 19th century novel . . . such an absorbing read' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Egan, Jennifer","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":49934724366675,"sku":"XV81472150875","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/egan-jennifer-manhattan-beach-xv81472150875-60409473794387.jpg?v=1734157391","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/manhattan-beach-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}