Episode 120: Manhattan Beach

Literary Disco

English - February 12, 2018 19:11 - 51 minutes - ★★★★★ - 378 ratings
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Jennifer Egan’s a favorite author here on the Disco.
But does her latest novel, the New York period piece Manhattan Beach, keep up the winning streak?
It made a lot of Best Of 2017 lists, but the Disco trio is a bit divided. Are these characters realistic? Is the dialogue cliched?
Even as he rambles on and on about how much he likes it, Rider admits he might be crazy…

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