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product_id: 48702080
title: "Manhattan Beach"
brand: "jennifer egan"
price: "R669"
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reviews_count: 23
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# Manhattan Beach

**Brand:** jennifer egan
**Price:** R669
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** Manhattan Beach by jennifer egan
- **How much does it cost?** R669 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    Research heavy
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 March 2019*

The afterword to the novel testifies to the huge weight of research that lies behind it, but weighty research does not necessarily make for a convincing story or even a believeable setting. In this case it weighs down to narrative, causing it to crawl where it should jump, and paradoxically to leap in all directions when some kind of coherent intention was necessary to keep the reader involved.I write this reluctantly, as an admirer of A Visit by the Goon Squad, but the novel is for me a serious and puzzling disappointment: a book seemingly written more out of a decision to treat a historic subject than an original creative impulse. In virtually every area the book is hollow, based on material that has not been transformed by the writer’s imagination. The character of Anna is fair enough, but that alone is not sufficient to hold the book together. Both Dexter Styles and Eddie are cliched versions of ‘good’ men in a bad world, derived, I would guess, from gangster films. I also seem to have come across the self-sacrificing mother and the boozy aunt in multiple other iterations, A character like Charlie Voss — a thinly realised cliche of the closeted homosexual — is introduced early on in Anna’s career. After this the reader assumes that Voss will play some significant part resolving in the plot. He does not. Other characters enter and exit without purpose. The world of the shipyards and the men and women who work in them fails, despite exhaustive particularity, to assume any solidarity. The book is stodgy; finishing it was an effort.Others, judging by the praise which the book has attracted, see it very differently. I only wish I could agree with them.

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    Much more than I expected
  

*by L***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2018*

This book was so much more than I expected from the summary. If i’d read more reviews I would have been better prepared for the way it drew me into to the lives of it characters.  For the fun and the hardships, for the dalliances and the dismalness of ordinary life.  The characters were interesting; people you’d like to get to know better.Worth a Read.

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    Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan
  

*by T***B on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 September 2018*

More formally constructed than the highly unconventional, multi-narrative "Goon Squad", this historical novel still addresses the issues of time, identity and suffocating social mores through the stories of several interconnected characters, led by the young woman who wants to become a diver working on war ships in the New York docks during World War 2.  Written with real style, this is a most enjoyable read: precise description brings this world to life and there is plenty of tension in each character's story, with occasional near-fantasy development.

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