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1 online resource (593 pages) : illustrations |
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"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. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Pilots -- Fiction.
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Women -- Fiction.
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Pilots and pilotage -- Fiction.
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Rescues -- Fiction.
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Disappeared persons -- Fiction.
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Actresses -- Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Shipstead, Maggie. Great circle New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021 9780525656975 (DLC) 2020021074 (OCoLC)1154075263 |
| ISBN |
9780525656982 |
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0525656987 |
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