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Great circle / Maggie Shipstead.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Shipstead Great
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Van Pelt Library PS3619.H586 G74 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shipstead, Maggie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rescues--Fiction.
- Rescues.
- Disappeared persons.
- Women air pilots--Fiction.
- Women air pilots.
- Disappeared persons--Fiction.
- Actresses--Fiction.
- Actresses.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 593 pages : map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021]
- Summary:
- "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 pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher 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 and piloting her plane over the Arctic Circle. A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance over the South Pacific. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to re-define 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 womens' 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knoff"--Title page verso.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Schneidman Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Shipstead, Maggie, Great circle
- ISBN:
- 9780525656975
- 0525656979
- OCLC:
- 1154075263
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