Manhattan Beach

Name: Manhattan Beach
Author: Jennifer Egan

by Jennifer Egan

Novel set in 1940s Brooklyn following stevedore family during wartime era

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Jennifer Egan

American novelist whose A Visit from the Goon Squad won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Its chapter told entirely in PowerPoint is a celebrated formal experiment. She is one of the most inventive and widely read novelists in contemporary America.

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