Manhattan beach book review5/21/2023 ![]() Eddie, a longshoreman whom hard times have thrown out of a job, has been working as a bagman for John Dunellen, a corrupt union boss (“a big man with savage dock walloper’s hands” who “gave a drooping, corroded impression, like a freighter gone to rust after being too long at anchor”). She is accompanying her father on a visit to Dexter Styles, some kind of a big shot living in a mansion on Manhattan Beach, the place an overwhelming contrast to the Kerrigans’ tenement apartment in Brooklyn. ![]() The new novel is fairly straightforward in construction but superbly devious in plot - its characters time and again blind to the true nature of the situations in which they find themselves.Īnna, elder of Eddie and Agnes Kerrigan’s two daughters, is 11 years old in the mid-1930s when we meet her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jennifer Egan’s “Manhattan Beach” follows her Pulitzer Prize-winning “A Visit From the Goon Squad” (2010), a brilliant tour de force which braided the lifelines of a large cast of characters into one ingeniously intricate pattern. ![]()
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