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Manhattan Beach

A Novel

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Manhattan Beach

Auteur(s): Jennifer Egan
Narrateur(s): Norbert Leo Butz, Heather Lind, Vincent Piazza
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 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. Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Fiction New York Guerre

Ce que les critiques en disent

Praise for Jennifer Egan:

“Jennifer Egan may well be the best living American novelist.”

(Joe Klein)
“Jennifer Egan is a writer of tremendous intelligence and grace.”
“Jennifer Egan is . . . dizzyingly inventive.”
“Is there anything Egan can’t do?”
Advanced Praise for Manhattan Beach:

“Egan’s propulsive, surprising, ravishing, and revelatory saga, a covertly profound page-turner that will transport and transform every reader, casts us all as divers in the deep, searching for answers, hope, and ascension.”
“Tremendously assured and rich, moving from depictions of violence and crime to deep tenderness. The book’s emotional power once again demonstrates Egan’s extraordinary gifts.”
“After stretching the boundaries of fiction in myriad ways...Egan does perhaps the only thing left that could surprise: she writes a thoroughly traditional novel. Realistically detailed, poetically charged, and utterly satisfying: apparently there’s nothing Egan can’t do.”
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This story was interesting and I like the time and place in which it was set. There were a few little twists to the story that I liked but I wasn't very fond of the switching between character perspectives.

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Multi-faceted

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Jennifer Egan’s writing is stunning - emotive, sometimes funny, complex when it’s needed and sparse when it’s not. Her characters are fully formed, deep, and sometimes a mystery to themselves and the read. It isn’t a short book, but the perfect pace and outstanding performances made me slip my headphones over my ears at every opportunity. I’d definitely recommend this book/audiobook to fiction lovers and those who just want to be told a great story. #Audible1

This book was like a dream

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I had high hopes for this book, but in the end was dying for it to be over. It feels like three shorter books sloppily stitched together at the edges. The stories of the three primary characters feel unrelated and often uninteresting. I found myself skipping ahead 20 seconds at a time on more than one occasion.

I would not recommend this book.

My least favourite audio book of the year

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I really struggled with this book right from the beginning, however, I stayed with it just to see if the pace would pick up or the content become more interesting. For me, it did not, and I found myself becoming less interested in the story as time went on.

I found the story too descriptive and almost gets lost at times in the detail. I am still trying to figure out what the point of the whole thing was as I didn’t really understand the plot or how the story progresses other than following the lives of the three main characters, which, were quite depressing.

Perhaps this book accurately reflects the Depression era and the aftermath of that and war, however, I still didn’t find it inspired me to listen.

The performances were excellent and was part of he reason I continued. They added to the “doom and gloom” of this novel.

Not sure who I would recommend this story to.

Totally Bored by this Book

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I could not get into this book.
Attempted a few times, performances were good but the story seemed to drag along.
I will google the ending as I am curious to find out what happened in the end...
Not curious enough to finish.

Did not finish

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