Manhattan Beach
(Large Print)
Author
Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Large print edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Large Print Fiction
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LC Subjects
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Large type books
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Women divers -- Fiction.
Women with disabilities -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.
Ziegfeld follies -- Fiction.
Domestic fiction
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Large type books
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Women divers -- Fiction.
Women with disabilities -- Family relationships -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction.
Ziegfeld follies -- Fiction.
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
665 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 657-662).
Description
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. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval 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 with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished.