Manhattan Beach : a novel
(Book)
Author
Status
Adult Fiction - South Wing Basement
Egan
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Egan
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Format
Book
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
UPC
40027486020
Notes
General Note
Colored map on endpapers.
Description
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.--,Adapted from book jacket.
Subjects
LC Subjects
Absentee fathers -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Irish Americans -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Organized crime -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Women divers -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.
Young women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Irish Americans -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Organized crime -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Women divers -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.
Young women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Egan, J. (2017). Manhattan Beach: a novel (First Scribner hardcover edition.). Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Egan, Jennifer. 2017. Manhattan Beach: A Novel. Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach: A Novel Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach: A Novel First Scribner hardcover edition., Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2017.
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