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Manhattan Beach : a novel

Egan, Jennifer (author.).

Summary: 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.--

Record details

ISBN: 1476716749
ISBN: 9781476716749
ISBN: 150118377X
ISBN: 9781501183775
ISBN: 1476716730
ISBN: 9781476716732
Physical Description: 438 pages ; 24 cm
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Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York, New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., [2017].
Copyright: ©2017