Great Circle

Great Circle
Maggie Shipstead
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Paperback
h198 x 127mm - 688pg
7 Apr 2022 UK
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9781529176643
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By the New York Times bestselling and prizewinning author of SEAT ARRANGEMENTS. ' Ferociously clever' GUARDIAN' Distinctive and dazzling' RICHARD RUSSO________________________I WAS BORN TO BE A WANDERERFrom the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship; to the day she joins a pair of daredevil pilots looping and diving over the rugged forests of her childhood, to the thrill of flying Spitfires during the war, the life of Marian Graves has always been marked by a lust for freedom and danger. In 1950, she embarks on her life' s dream - to fly a Great Circle around the globe, pole to pole. But after a crash landing she finds herself stranded on the Antarctic ice without enough fuel. With a fearsome piece of water separating her from completion of the Circle, she writes one last entry in her logbook. She is ready for her final journey. Half a century later, Hadley Baxter, a brilliant, troubled Hollywood starlet is irresistibly drawn to play Marian Graves, a role that will lead her to probe the deepest mysteries of the vanished pilot' s life. An enthralling journey over oceans and continents and a drama of exhilarating power, GREAT CIRCLE combines an unforgettable cast with thrilling suspense in a hearstopping story of loss and obsession, sacrifice and survival, of the unknowable mysteries of freedom, love and life itself. __________________________________________Praise for Maggie Shipstead, New York Times bestseller and winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and LA Times First Fiction Prize-' Outrageously gifted' RICHARD RUSSO' Ferociously clever' GUARDIAN' ' Graceful and dazzling' MARIA SEMPLE' Joyously good' DAILY MAIL' impressive' JEFFREY EUGENIDES
This is truly exceptional storytelling, combining a sweeping arc of history with writing that, at sentence level, is near-flawless * BOOKSELLER * Whether Shipstead is creating scenes in the Prohibition-era American West, in wartime London, or on a Hollywood movie set, her research is invisible, allowing a fully immersive experience. Ingeniously structured and so damn entertaining; this novel is as ambitious as its heroines-but it never falls from the sky. * KIRKUS * Books to look forward to in 2021 * GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, NEW STATESMAN * Whether Shipstead is creating scenes in the Prohibition-era American West, in wartime London, or on a Hollywood movie set, her research is as invisible, allowing a fully immersive experience. Ingeniously structured and so damn entertaining; this novel is as ambitious as its heroines-but it never falls from the sky. * KIRKUS *
MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD' s debut novel SEATING ARRANGEMENTS was a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and L A Times Book Prize for First Fiction. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Conde Nast Traveller, The Best American Short Stories and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writer' s Workshop, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford and a two- time National Magazine Award finalist for fiction. Her second novel is the critically acclaimed ASTONISH ME. Her latest novel GREAT CIRCLE is due to be published around the world. Maggie Shipstead grew up in California and lives in Los Angeles, California.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781529176643
Published: 7 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publisher: Transworld Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 127mm
Spine: 35mm
Weight: 500g
Pages: 688

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