Manhattan Beach [CD] / a novel / Jennifer Egan.

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Egan, Jennifer [author.]

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Material type: Sound

SoundPublication details: [New York, N.Y.] : Audioworks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017.Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 12 compact discs (ca. 15 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 inISBN:

1442399988
9781442399983
9781508265344

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DDC classification:

813/.54 23

Read by Norbert Leo Butz, Heather Lind and Vincent Piazza.Summary: 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Audiobook	West Grey Durham Branch Shelves	Fiction	CD FIC EGA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	2019 Community Foundation		33321003173961

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Read by Norbert Leo Butz, Heather Lind and Vincent Piazza.

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.

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