6/25/2023 0 Comments Manhattan beach eganOne cold day they drive out to Manhattan Beach to meet with Dexter Styles, a dashing and ruthless nightclub impresario who is impressed with Anna’s urge to walk barefoot in the frigid sand and sea. In Depression-era New York City, Eddie Kerrigan, a self-possessed, exceptionally observant man, takes his smart, circumspect 11-year-old daughter, Anna, along on his rounds as a bagman for an Irish gangster. The sea, in all its gleaming, brooding, swaying magnificence and mystery, calls to the striving characters in Egan’s first historical novel and exerts an equally magnetic pull on readers.
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