Great circle. [online electronic audiobook]
Great circle. [online electronic audiobook]
By
:
Shipstead, Maggie.
Publication Date
:
2021
Subject Term
:
Electronic books.
Audiobooks -- Unabridged.
Women -- Fiction.
Rescue work -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Additional Contributors
:
Campbell, Cassandra,
McKenna, Alex, 1984- ,
Performer
:
Read by Cassandra Campbell and Alex McKenna.
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.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780593155066
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