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Title Statement | Great circle / Maggie Shipstead. |
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Author | Shipstead, Maggie |
Publication | New York: Alfred A. Knopf,2021. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 593 pages |
ISBN | 0525656979 9780525656975 |
Other Number | 3995787 |
General Notes | "Read with Jenna"--Cover. |
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. |
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By Topic | Autonomy (Psychology)--Fiction |
Actresses--Fiction | |
Missing persons--Fiction | |
Women air pilots--Fiction | |
By Genre | Historical fiction |