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Manhattan Beach

novel by Egan

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The noir thriller Manhattan Beach (2017) is largely set in 1940s New York City and centres on several interconnected characters, notably a woman who is the first female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard. In 2022 Egan published The Candy House, a sequel to A Visit from the…
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