Great circle, a novel, Maggie Shipstead
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Great circle, a novel, Maggie Shipstead
Language
eng
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Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Great circle
Oclc number
1242971019
Responsibility statement
Maggie Shipstead
Sub title
a novel
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
Target audience
adult
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- Rescues -- Fiction
- Biographical films -- Fiction
- Montana -- Fiction
- Twins -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Scandals -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Actresses -- Fiction
- Women air pilots -- Fiction
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction
- Shipwreck survival -- Fiction
- Adventure stories
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction
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- Rescues -- Fiction
- Biographical films -- Fiction
- Montana -- Fiction
- Twins -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Scandals -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Actresses -- Fiction
- Women air pilots -- Fiction
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction
- Shipwreck survival -- Fiction
- Adventure stories
- Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction
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