Great circle : a novel / Maggie Shipstead.
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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- ISBN: 9780593459416
- ISBN: 0593459415
- Physical Description: 947 pages (large print) : map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First large print edition.
- Publisher: [New York] : Random House Large Print, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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General Note: | "Read with Jenna"--Cover. |
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Genre: | Large type books. Action and adventure fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. Historical fiction. Action and adventure fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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Burlington Public Library | LP F SHIPSTEA SEP 2021 | 39851001616573 | Large Print Fiction | Copy hold | Checked out | 05/03/2024 |