The second preface is dated December 2014, depicting the last day of the shooting of a film about Marian Graves’s flight around-the-world. The first is the final entry of aviator Marian Graves’s logbook, recorded just before the final leg of her around-the-world flight in 1950. At the outset two short sections act as prefaces, introducing the context of the two narratives. Structure Įach of the narrative threads is arranged largely in chronological order and interleaved with the other thread at irregular intervals. Hadley's narrative is told in the first-person, while Marian's sections are told in the third-person. Hadley is shown struggling with the demands of being a Hollywood starlet while learning more about the life of Marian. One is about the disappeared 20th-century aviator Marian Graves, while the other is about a 21st-century actress, Hadley Baxter, who is cast in the role of Marian for a film about her final flight. The novel consists of two parallel narratives about two fictional women. The novel was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Great Circle is a 2021 novel by American writer Maggie Shipstead, published on May 4, 2021, by Alfred A.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |