![]() ![]() The work, welding tankers 30 feet underwater while encased in 200 pounds of suffocating equipment, is tough for a claustrophobe to even read about. However, still thwarted by entrenched sexism, it takes several tons of grit and talent for 19-year-old Anna Kerrigan to break into the macho world of deep-sea diving at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Her sixth book revolves around a strong, remarkably fearless female protagonist, at once classic and modern, who benefits from one of the results of that shakeup - the opening of typically male jobs to women. “The war had shaken people loose,” Egan writes. And while her new novel may be less technically innovative, it is an unusually well written, well researched, emotionally satisfying page-turner - which demonstrates that the power of her work lies beyond virtuosic literary stunts. ![]() ![]() Given the expectations, you could say it’s daring of Egan to go more traditional and plunge deep into the wartime history of her home borough. ![]()
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