Book

Great circle / Maggie Shipstead.

Shipstead, Maggie, (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780525656975
ISBN: 0525656979
Physical Description: 593 pages : map ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

General Note:

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.

"Read with Jenna" --cover.

Summary, etc.:

"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 barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes-Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger 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 by flying over the North and South Poles. A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant, canny, disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood, Hadley is eager to redefine 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 women's fates-and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times-collide."-- Provided by publisher.