With Manhattan Beach, Egan once again demonstrates her mastery of the sweeping, multi-character narrative. Of course, the investigation is merely the tipping point from which conflict proliferates and allows the vast narrative to breathe. True to the novel’s noir-inflected atmosphere, Anna investigates her father’s life, looking for answers to the questions that have dogged her. At the center of its orbit is one Anna Kerrigan, haunted by the mystery of her father’s disappearance. The characters in Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan’s latest novel range from sailors to gangsters, bankers, and union workers. Stanley discuss Jennifer Egan’s National Book Award–longlisted historical novel Manhattan Beach. In this edition, Liz von Klemperer and T.A. Double Take is a literary criticism series in which two readers tackle a highly-anticipated book’s innermost themes, successes, failures, trappings, and surprises.
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