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REVIEWS: Manhattan Beach
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The NY Times
The Guardian
GoodReads
Book Companion
Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great
Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly 12 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. She
is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl, and her
lovely, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub 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.
Mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful, with the pace and atmosphere
of a noir thriller and a wealth of detail about organized crime,
the merchant marine, and the clash of classes in New York.
Manhattan Beach is a magnificent novel by one of the greatest
writers of our time.
Characters: 161. Amazon rating: 4 stars. Genre: Noir Thriller.
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