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082 0 0 _aFIC SHI
100 1 _aShipstead, Maggie
245 1 0 _aGreat circle /
_cMaggie Shipstead.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bAlfred A. Knopf,
_c2021.
300 _a593 p;
_c25 cm
520 _aAfter 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.
546 _aEnglish
650 _aRescues
_vFiction
650 _aWomen pilots
_vFiction
650 _aDisappearences
_vFiction
650 _aActresses
_vFiction
655 _aHistorical fiction
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aShipstead, Maggie,
_tGreat circle
_bFirst edition.
_dNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
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