Styles, a gangster, employs Eddie as a bagman, unbeknownst to Anna. The narrative centers around three characters: Anna Kerrigan, a young woman who finds work as one of the first female Navy divers her father Eddie, a former stockbroker who lost a fortune in the Crash and Dexter Styles. Flashbacks take us back to the mid-1930s, and later chapters are set several years after the war. The action in Manhattan Beach largely takes place in 19, just as the tide of events in World War II was turning in favor of the Allies. Finely drawn characters and a vivid setting And that’s certainly the case with Manhattan Beach. Give me a good World War II story any day, and I’m likely to enjoy it. Despite the popularity of the earlier book and the prizes it won, I found it far less approachable than Manhattan Beach. One critic commented on that book’s “time-hopping narrative, unorthodox format, and motley cast of characters.” Her fifth book, Manhattan Beach, a bestselling historical novel, is a more straightforward tale. Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her fourth novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad.
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