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Shipstead, Maggie.
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Women -- Fiction.
Air pilots -- Fiction.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction.
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Shipstead, Maggie.
Women -- Fiction.
Air pilots -- Fiction.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction.
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Great
circle
/ Maggie Shipstead.
by
Shipstead, Maggie.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Call #:
FICTION SHI
Subjects
Women -- Fiction.
Air pilots -- Fiction.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780525656975 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
593 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"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"--Publisher.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Literary fiction.
Holds:
4
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Adult Fiction
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Jul 17, 2024
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Adult Fiction
FICTION SHI
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