Great circle /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021]Copyright date: 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 593 pages : map ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780525656975
- 0525656979
- 9781984897701
- FICTION / Literary
- FICTION / Satire
- FICTION / Biographical
- Rescues -- Fiction
- Disappeared persons -- Fiction
- Actresses -- Fiction
- Women air pilots
- Disappeared persons
- Actresses
- Rescues
- Women
- Gender identity
- Women -- Fiction
- Women air pilots -- Fiction
- Actors -- Fiction
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Biographical films -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Antarctica
- Antarctica -- Fiction
- 813/.6 23
- 813/.6 S5578g 23
- PS3619.H586 G74 2021
- I712.45
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Standard Loan | Coeur d'Alene Library Adult Fiction | Coeur d'Alene Library | Book | SHIPSTE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610023324689 | |||
Standard Loan | Hayden Library Adult Fiction | Hayden Library | Book | SHIPSTE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610023160661 | |||
Standard Loan | Osburn Library Adult Fiction | Osburn Library | Book | SHIPSTEAD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610022340728 | |||
Standard Loan | Priest River Library Adult Fiction | Priest River Library | Book | F SHIPSTE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610021868216 | |||
Standard Loan | Rathdrum Library Adult Fiction | Rathdrum Library | Book - Paperback | SHIPSTE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610023879492 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK * The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost: an "epic trip--through Prohibition and World War II, from Montana to London to present-day Hollywood--and you'll relish every minute" ( People ).
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 barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger 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 by flying over the North and South Poles.
A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine 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 women's 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.
"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
"Read with Jenna" --dust jacket.
The Joesphina eterna -- Los Angeles, 2014 -- An incomplete history of Missoula, Montana -- Barnstormers -- An incomplete history of sitting-in-the-water-grizzly -- Grace Kelly -- House of virtue -- Manifest, manifest -- An incomplete history of Marian's fifteenth and sixteenth years -- Millionaire's row -- The cosmic whoosh of the expanding universe -- Marriage -- Red herrings -- Lodgings -- An incomplete history of the graves family -- Memories roadshow -- An incomplete history of the graves family -- The war -- Trust your lust -- The war -- Glints -- The war -- D-Day -- Constellations -- The flight.
"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 barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes-Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger 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 by flying over the North and South Poles. A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine 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 women's fates-and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times-collide."--
Patron comment on 02/12/2022
Maggie Shipstead is an accomplished storyteller, who threads together the first chapters to bring you to the storyline of a woman pilot lost over the South Pacific.