bokomslag Great Circle: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist)
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Great Circle: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist)

Maggie Shipstead

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  • 672 sidor
  • 2022
After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There-after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes-Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles.

A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine herself after a romantic film franchise has imprisoned her in the grip of cult celebrity. Her immersion into the character of Marian unfolds, thrillingly, alongside Marian's own story, as the two women's fates-and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times-collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead.
  • Författare: Maggie Shipstead
  • Format: Häftad
  • ISBN: 9781984897701
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 672
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-04-01
  • Förlag: Vintage