Manhattan Beach
A Novel
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Manhattan Beach
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Narrated by:
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Norbert Leo Butz
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Heather Lind
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Vincent Piazza
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Written by:
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Jennifer Egan
About this listen
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 12 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 nightclub 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.
©2017 Jennifer Egan (P)2017 Simon & Schuster, Inc.What listeners say about Manhattan Beach
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- Eva Pusztahegyi
- 2018-09-17
Multi-faceted
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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- Kayla
- 2018-09-26
This book was like a dream
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
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 2018-01-17
My least favourite audio book of the year
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.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- Melanie O
- 2018-04-30
Totally Bored by this Book
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.
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- KJ007
- 2018-08-02
Did not finish
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.
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