En cours de chargement...
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.Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women hold jobs that were once the preserve of men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous 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 and the reasons he might have vanished.
Water, water everywhere....
Manhattan Beach is a rare tour de force which will appeal to a wide readership interested in working class New York City during the early twentieth century. Jennifer Egan's meticulously researched novel plunges the reader into the time period spanning the pre-war and Second World War eras in New York City where a certain Anna Kerrigan demonstrates her penchant for iconoclastic behaviour when she becomes the first female deep sea diver for the US Navy. This event merely represents one of many occasions when Egan convincingly shows the reader the critical role which the element of water plays in the diverse shifts of destiny which the novel's characters undergo with life-changing consequences. A haunting and unforgettable novel with grit and soul.