![]() Much of “Manhattan Beach” takes place in and around the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where hordes of young women had been suddenly injected into the workforce for the first time to support the Allied war effort. Not in the prose, which is as beveled and fine-grained as ever, but in the sheer scale on which Egan has conjured up a vanished history. Beneath her ebullience and grace you can detect traces of a fierce will.Īnd “Manhattan Beach,” a fantastically detailed evocation of life on the New York waterfront during World War II, gives its own evidence of how labor-intensive the act of creating it must have been. You only have to spend an hour with her to understand how deeply her work ethic runs, or to recognize the level of energy and commitment she brings to even the most mundane task. Of course, it isn’t as though Egan just came off years of kicking around in her bathrobe. ![]() Suffice it to say that she’s already filling notepads with the first draft of her next novel. ” and here Egan launched into an extended bout of calculations, pitting writing time against life expectancy like some kind of bookish actuary. ![]() “I have intimations of at least seven different worlds I want to explore, and if each one of those is a book, then we’re talking about. But she’s also got an agenda, and an eye on the clock. ![]()
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