“Manhattan Beach” has something for everyone: World War II, gangsters, New York’s first female diver, a charming younger sister with tragic disabilities, father-daughter relationships, romance and more. It follows a familiar plot structure, without any extreme genre play, but weaves together a vast array of subjects. “Manhattan Beach,” however, is not quite as experimental as Egan’s other works, at least not in form and structure. “Manhattan Beach” is Egan’s first novel since her success with “A Visit From the Goon Squad.” Readers and critics eagerly awaited the novel’s release in 2017, expecting another unique tour de force from the acclaimed author. Renowned for her creative experimentation with genre and form, Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “A Visit From the Goon Squad,” a book which is almost a novel, almost a short-story collection. Jennifer Egan can always be expected to impress her readers with her dazzling prose.
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