Great circle / 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525656975
- ISBN: 0525656979
- Physical Description: 593 pages : map ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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Subject: | Women air pilots > Fiction. Missing persons > Fiction. Actresses > Fiction. Independence in women > Fiction. Autonomy (Psychology) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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