03297cam a2200349 4500 521634975 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781508211341 1508211345 16bc4ac0-d2d2-4cf2-a28e-05dc94f05c78 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3198590 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach [Libby] : A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 420MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 419MB. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b> <ul> <li><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book</b><br /> <br /> <b>Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction</b><br /> <br /> <b>The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author.</b><br /> <br /> <b>Named One of the Best Books of the Year</b> <b>by NPR, <i>Esquire</i>, <i>Vogue</i>, <i>The Washington Post</i>, <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>USA TODAY</i>, and <i>Time</i></b><br /> 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.<br /> <br /> ‎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, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, 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.<br /> <br /> "A magnificent achievement, at once a suspenseful noir intrigue and a transporting work of lyrical beauty and emotional heft" (<i>The Boston Globe</i>), "Egan's first foray into historical fiction makes you forget you're reading historical fiction at all" (<i>Elle</i>). <i>Manhattan Beach</i> takes us into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men in a dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world.</li> </ul>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. Butz, Norbert Leo. Lind, Heather. Piazza, Vincent. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/3198590-ManhattanBeach.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=16bc4ac0-d2d2-4cf2-a28e-05dc94f05c78&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/3198590-ManhattanBeach.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=16bc4ac0-d2d2-4cf2-a28e-05dc94f05c78&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)