RaveThe St. Louis Post-DispatchIn her new novel, Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan focuses on three characters whose destinies become intertwined, starting in Brooklyn during the Great Depression ...Egan embracing the aesthetic of the historical novel, delivering a story of Dickensian ambition that benefits mightily from her meticulous attention to detail and her rich, evocative language ... Shifting back and forth between the perspectives of Anna, Eddie and Dexter, Egan creates a kaleidoscopic portrait of a pre-internet era...with Manhattan Beach, she reaffirms that, as a writer, she’s not limited as far as milieu or mode of storytelling.
