![]() ![]() ![]() The dress baffled his movements and the shoes rooted him to the pier, giving the impression of a tree harried by a gale. He rose from the bench and began to thrash. ![]() The front tender tapped the top of the helmet, meaning that Olmstead should stand and be inspected by Lieutenant Axel. The hat alone weighs fifty-six.") a matter of high suspense and metaphor: Egan makes dressing for a dive ("The dress weighs two hundred pounds. ![]() She percolates the story with Flossie Flirt dolls, a '28 Duesenberg Model J (Niagara blue), the charitable ladies of the New York Catholic Protectory, Benny Goodman-style swing, and such a profusion of details regarding big-ship construction and underwater repair that you'd expect to be just slightly inclined to read a little faster through those pages, but you are not. Manhattan Beach is a spectacular novel by one of the greatest writers of our time. Manhattan Beach fully embraces and delivers a sweeping. Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere of a noir thriller, 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. Egan builds her story with the countless particulars of her chosen era - America at war, Americans at nightclubs, gangsters and sailors and union workers all fighting for a slice of a diminished post-Depression pie. So perhaps the most surprising aspect of Egans latest is how resolutely classic a novel it is. ![]()
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