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Author:

Shipstead, Maggie, author.

Title:

Great circle : a novel / Maggie Shipstead.

Edition:

First large print edition.

Publisher:

Random House Large Print,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

947 pages (large print) : map ; 24 cm

Subject:

Rescues--Fiction.
Women air pilots--Fiction.
Disappeared persons--Fiction.
Actresses--Fiction.
Life change events--Fiction.
Biographical films--Fiction.
Missing persons--Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in women--Fiction.
Large type books.
Historical fiction.
Action and adventure fiction.

Notes:

"Read with Jenna"--Cover.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0593459415
9780593459416

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1242971019

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