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Manhattan Beach audiobook
- By: Jennifer Egan
- Narrator: Norbert Leo Butz
- Category: Fiction, Literary
- Length: 15 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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Manhattan Beach Audiobook Summary
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vogue, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA TODAY, and Time
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.
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.
“A magnificent achievement, at once a suspenseful noir intrigue and a transporting work of lyrical beauty and emotional heft” (The Boston Globe), “Egan’s first foray into historical fiction makes you forget you’re reading historical fiction at all” (Elle). Manhattan Beach 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.
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Manhattan Beach Audiobook Narrator
Norbert Leo Butz is the narrator of Manhattan Beach audiobook that was written by Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is the author of six previous books of fiction: Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction; A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Keep; the story collection Emerald City; Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Granta, McSweeney’s, and The New York Times Magazine. Her website is JenniferEgan.com.
About the Author(s) of Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan is the author of Manhattan Beach
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Manhattan Beach Full Details
| Narrator | Norbert Leo Butz |
| Length | 15 hours 16 minutes |
| Author | Jennifer Egan |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Release date | April 26, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781442399990 |
Additional info
The publisher of the Manhattan Beach is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781442399990.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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