by Jennifer Egan · Little Brown · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781472150905
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«Manhattan Beach» is the historical novel by Jennifer Egan, published by Little Brown in paperback (512 pages, in English).
In Depression-era Brooklyn, Anna Kerrigan visits Dexter Styles with her father. Years later, with her father missing and the country at war, she works in the shipyards and becomes the first female diver. A reunion with Styles leads her to investigate her father's past and the world of crime and the merchant marine of New York.
The novel was originally published in 2017, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal and was nominated for the National Book Award, the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Walter Scott Prize.
For readers of historical and literary fiction interested in New York during World War II, with a female protagonist and a thriller atmosphere.
Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. From 2018 to 2020, she served as the president of PEN America.
