Egan, Jennifer
Manhattan Beach : a novel Jennifer Egan - First Scribner trade paperback edition. - New York Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2018 - 438 pages 21 cm
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.--
9781476716749 1476716749 9781476716732
2017486181
1939-1945
Young women--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
World War --United States--1939-1945--Fiction.
Women divers--Fiction.
Irish Americans--Fiction.
Organized crime--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Absentee fathers--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Fiction--Literary
Fiction--Historical--General
Fiction--General
New York (State)--New York.
United States.
PS3555.G292 / M36 2018
Ega 2
Manhattan Beach : a novel Jennifer Egan - First Scribner trade paperback edition. - New York Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2018 - 438 pages 21 cm
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.--
9781476716749 1476716749 9781476716732
2017486181
1939-1945
Young women--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
World War --United States--1939-1945--Fiction.
Women divers--Fiction.
Irish Americans--Fiction.
Organized crime--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.
Absentee fathers--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Fiction--Literary
Fiction--Historical--General
Fiction--General
New York (State)--New York.
United States.
PS3555.G292 / M36 2018
Ega 2