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Manhattan Beach: A Novel

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Description: Amazon.com Review An Amazon Best Book of October 2017: With Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan—who dazzled readers with her Pulitzer Prize-winning, A Visit from the Goon Squad—spins a classic historical novel. Classic in the sense that it’s virtually impossible to put down. Classic in its sepia toned portrait of New York: set on the Brooklyn docks during World War II, when mobsters ruled, the war loomed, and a young girl dove her way into becoming the first female diver on the squad. Classic in its quintessentially satisfying characters: crooked gangsters, disappearing fathers, gritty sailors and an intrepid young woman equall ... (more)
Manufacturer: Scribner
Release date: 3 October 2017
ISBN-10 : 1476716730 | ISBN-13: 9781476716732
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Kusse rated this 7/10 5 years ago
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Book diary 2019 (25 books items)