Great circle
(Book)
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
593 pages : map ; 25 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
Fiction Shipstead, M
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Fiction Shipstead, M
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Oliver La Farge - Adult | Fiction Shipstead, M | Hardcover | Checked Out | May 6, 2024 |
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
"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.
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