Manhattan Beach

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Jennifer Eganx{0026}lt;/B (Chicago, 1962) es una de las escritoras más reconocidas de la literatura estadounidense actual. Ha publicado una recopilación de cuentos y seis novelas, entre las que destacan x{0026}lt;I Manhattan Beachx{0026}lt;/I , la multigalardonada x{0026}lt;I El tiempo es un canallax{0026}lt;/I (Premio Pulitzer, National Book Critics Circle Award y x{0026}lt;I Los Angeles Times Book Prizex{0026}lt;/I ) y x{0026}lt;I La casa de caramelox{0026}lt;/I (uno de los diez mejores libros de 2022 según x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I ), las tres en Salamandra. Sus relatos y piezas periodísticas han aparecido en medios tan prestigiosos como x{0026}lt;I The New Yorkerx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Harper's Magazinex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Grantax{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I McSweeney'sx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I The New York Times Magazinex{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P