- FICTION / General, World War, 1939-1945, Young women, FICTION / Literary
"Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Jennifer Egan
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 512
- Publisher
- Społeczny Instytut Wydawniczy Znak, Znak Literanova, FISCHER Taschenbuch
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- Spanish, Polish, Korean, English
- ISBN
- 9781476716756
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Jennifer Egan (born September 7, 1962) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her novel *A Visit from the Goon Squad* won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. From 2018 to 2020, she served as the president of PEN America.
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