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Egan, Jennifer
Manhattan beach : a novel / Jennifer Egan
New York [etc.] : Scribner, 2017
Titolo e contributi: Manhattan beach : a novel / Jennifer Egan
Pubblicazione: New York [etc.] : Scribner, 2017
Descrizione fisica:
438 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN: 9781476716732
Data:2017
Lingua:
Inglese (lingua del testo, colonna sonora, ecc.)
Paese:
xx
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Abstract:
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, 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.