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Manhattan Beach


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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 a 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 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 as a Ziegfield folly, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a night club, 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.

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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Part One: The Shore -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Part Two: Shadow World -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Part Three: See the Sea -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Part Four: The Dark -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Part Five: The Voyage -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- Part Six: The Dive -- Chapter Twenty -- Chapter Twenty-One -- Chapter Twenty-Two -- Chapter Twenty-Three -- Chapter Twenty-Four -- Part Seven: The Sea, the Sea -- Chapter Twenty-Five -- Chapter Twenty-Six -- Chapter Twenty-Seven -- Chapter Twenty-Eight -- Part Eight: The Fog -- Chapter Twenty-Nine -- Chapter Thirty -- Chapter Thirty-One -- Acknowledgments -- Reading Group Guide -- 'The Candy House' Teaser -- About the Author -- Copyright


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litteratursiden.dk

d. 20. dec. 2017

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Thomas Behrmann

d. 20. dec. 2017

Forfatteren, der lod tæskeholdet banke på, har skrevet en velkomponeret episk roman om en pige, en gangster og en forsvunden far. Det er solid skrivekunst og fornøjelig læsning. Det er efterhånden fe...