Book Details
Title: Manhattan Beach
Author: Jennifer Egan
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Corsair
Year: 2017
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 438
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 978-1-4721-5088-2
Battle Scars:
Overall very good condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact. There is mild wear to extremities (corners/edges/ends), including some rubbing and corner creasing. Superficial scuffing.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"'We're going to see the sea', Anna whispered.
Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. The Great Depression.
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 mesmerised 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, and the reasons he might have vanished.
With the atmosphere of a noir thriller, Jennifer Egan's first historical novel follows Anna and Styles into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers and union men. 'Manhattan Beach' is a deft, dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world. It is a magnificent novel by the author of 'A Visit from the Goon Squad', one of the great writers of our time."
Book Details
Title: Manhattan Beach
Author: Jennifer Egan
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Corsair
Year: 2017
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Paperback
Pages: 438
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 978-1-4721-5088-2
Battle Scars:
Overall very good condition.
Outside:
The cover is intact. There is mild wear to extremities (corners/edges/ends), including some rubbing and corner creasing. Superficial scuffing.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"'We're going to see the sea', Anna whispered.
Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. The Great Depression.
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 mesmerised 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, and the reasons he might have vanished.
With the atmosphere of a noir thriller, Jennifer Egan's first historical novel follows Anna and Styles into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers and union men. 'Manhattan Beach' is a deft, dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world. It is a magnificent novel by the author of 'A Visit from the Goon Squad', one of the great writers of our time."
