Unknown to Anna, Eddie agrees to work for Styles in his gambling operations. Now he makes very little money as a bagman in the criminal underworld, and he tells Styles he needs money to pay for a wheelchair for his brain-damaged and paralyzed daughter, Lydia, Anna's younger sister. Eddie is a former vaudeville performer who switched to become a stockbroker during the Roaring Twenties, then was ruined in the Great Depression. Plot Įleven-going-on-twelve Anna Kerrigan and her father Eddie meet with gangster Dexter Styles in late 1934 at the Styles mansion on the shore of Manhattan Beach in Brooklyn, New York City. Time magazine selected it as one of its top ten novels of 2017. The National Book Foundation listed the book in their 2017 National Book Award Longlist in the Fiction category. Manhattan Beach is a historical novel by American writer Jennifer Egan.
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