Manhattan Beach

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Manhattan Beach

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ISBN: 9781476716732
author: Jennifer Egan
publishing house: Scribner
publication date: 2017 -10
binding: Hardcover
price: USD 28.00
number of pages: 448

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A Novel

Jennifer Egan   

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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.

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