#155 in Historical fiction
Manhattan Beach
- 512
- Pages
- about 9 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 3 weeks on the list, peaked at #6
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Our view
“Manhattan Beach” is a broad, carefully made historical novel set during the Second World War, with a strong woman at its centre. Some readers praise Jennifer Egan’s sympathy for her characters’ failings and her handling of disability. Others find the prose plain and the plot easy to foresee, or admire its scope without feeling much for the people in it.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Manhattan Beach is a historical novel by American writer Jennifer Egan. It was published, in 2017, by Scribner. The National Book Foundation listed the book, in their 2017 National Book Award Longlist, in the Fiction category. Time magazine selected it as one of its top ten novels of 2017.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.4 across 101 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 41% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Historical fiction average of 8.0. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.1 | 7 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 94 | 93% |
Frequently asked
How long is Manhattan Beach?
It has 512 pages — longer than 63% of the ranked books in Historical fiction.
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