MANHATTAN BEACH - JENNIFER EGAN

Libro

Editorial	LITTLE BROWN
Edad	Adultos Jovenes
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Autor	EGAN JENNIFER
ISBN	9781472150882
Peso ( kg )	0,583
Tipo	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2017
Formato	TAPA RUSTICA
Sinopsis	MANHATTAN BEACH The long-awaited novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Anna observes the uniformed servants, the lavishing of toys on the children and some secret pact between her father and Dexter Styles. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Navy 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 as a Ziegfield folly and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a night club, she chances to meet Styles, the man she visited with her father before he vanished and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have been murdered. Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime, the merchant marine and the clash of classes in New York, Egan's first historical novel is a masterpiece, a deft, startling, intimate exploration of a transformative moment in the lives of women and men, America and the world. Manhattan Beach is a magnificent novel by one of the greatest writers of our time. Edad recomendada: Adultos jóvenes. EGAN JENNIFER Jennifer Egan es una escritora estadounidense nacida el 7 de septiembre de 1962 en Chicago, Illinois. Se crio en San Francisco y estudió en la Universidad de Pensilvania y en el St. John's College de la Universidad de Cambridge. Es conocida por sus novelas, entre ellas El tiempo es un canalla, que ganó el Premio Pulitzer de Ficción en 2011, y Manhattan Beach, una novela histórica ambientada en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. También ha publicado La casa de caramelo, considerada uno de los mejores libros de 2022. Además de su trabajo como novelista, Egan ha escrito relatos y piezas periodísticas para revistas como The New Yorker, Harper's y The New York Times Magazine. Desde 2018, es presidenta de PEN América, una organización que defiende la libertad de expresión.
Cantidad de páginas	448
Fecha Ingreso	01-01-0001