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Detalhes do Produto

Sinopse

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…

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Autor

Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan é uma escritora galardoada com o Prémio Pulitzer, o National Book Critics Circle Award para ficção e o Los Angeles Times Book Prize (todos atribuídos a A Visita do Brutamontes). O seu romance A Praia de Manhattan ganhou as medalhas Andrew Carnegie para excelência na ficção e foi vencedor do New York City’s One Book. Os seus contos têm aparecido em publicações como The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Granta, McSweeney’s, entre outras…

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