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Maggie Shipstead is the New York Times-bestselling author of the novels Astonish Me and Seating Arrangements, winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction. A third novel, Great Circle, will be published in May 2021. She is a graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow ...

By Maggie Shipstead. Within the first 60 pages of Maggie Shipstead's "Great Circle," there are two plane crashes, the beginning of a Hollywood rendition of a plane crash and a sunken ship ...

A great circle, Maggie Shipstead's third novel explains on the opening page, is "the largest circle that can be drawn on a sphere". The equator is one; so is every line of longitude. The ...

Yet Great Circle is more than a historical novel, and the book has more than one heroine. Running in parallel to Marian's story is a 21st-century narrative: that of Hadley Baxter, a Hollywood ...

Maggie Shipstead's 'Great Circle' is a soaring work of historical fiction and a perfect summer novel. Review by Ron Charles. May 3, 2021 at 5:40 p.m. EDT. Maggie Shipstead may have been ...

GREAT CIRCLE. by Maggie Shipstead ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 4, 2021. Ingeniously structured and so damn entertaining; this novel is as ambitious as its heroines—but it never falls from the sky. The intertwined journeys of an aviatrix born in 1914 and an actress cast to play her a century later. In a novel twice as long as and an order of ...

Great Circle 's 600 pages span a full century and the entire planet. The book tells the story of Marian Graves, a fictional female pilot who disappeared in 1950 while attempting an unprecedented ...

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Marian Graves, the swashbuckling heroine of Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead's sprawling new doorstop of a novel, is "an odd, tall, dusty, freckled girl" for whom gender fluidity is a gift, used ...

This stellar historical novel explores the lives of a groundbreaking aviatrix in the first half of the 20th century and the actress slated to play her a century later. Maggie Shipstead's Great Circle follows the lives of two fictional women: Prohibition-era aviatrix Marian Graves and contemporary actress Hadley Baxter, who lands the role of ...

Knopf. Maggie Shipstead's new Great Circle is one of the most anticipated novels of the spring. At a time when so many of us have been cooped up, her novel ranges around the world in over a ...

The Best Books of May 2021; Our Favorite Books of 2021; Oprah and Jenna Bush Hager Talk Book Clubs; Maggie Shipstead's sumptuous epic, Great Circle (Knopf, May 4) is the one. I brought it with me to Key West on my first vacation since the Covid lockdown began in March 2020, along with about eight other options—just in case.

Likewise, Maggie Shipstead's third novel, Great Circle leans heavily on its namesake as it drives towards its landing, and while we do safely reach the end — completing a long, adventurous, and large-scale journey along the way — at times one cannot help but wonder as to the result if more attention might have been paid to the how over ...

Book Summary. An unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost - Great Circle spans Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles. After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie ...

Great Circle received very favorable reviews, with a cumulative "Rave" rating at the review aggregator website Book Marks, based on 23 book reviews from mainstream literary critics. The novel debuted at number fourteen on The New York Times Hardcover fiction best-seller list for the week ending May 8, 2021.

Rave Stuart Miller, The Boston Globe. With Great Circle, it's time to rewrite the book on Maggie Shipstead. Her writing still soars and dips with dizzying flair, but this time the dazzling prose is in the service of an expansive story that covers more than a century and seems to encapsulate the whole wide world.

Similar in tone and feel to novels like Sarah Blake's The Guest Book and Erika Swyler's The Book of Speculation, Great Circle is sweeping in scope and does well in capturing and conveying a strong feeling of time and place. Shipstead's writing is well-honed and fluid throughout. She creates beautiful subtleties with the images and ...

Rave Stuart Miller, The Boston Globe. With Great Circle, it's time to rewrite the book on Maggie Shipstead. Her writing still soars and dips with dizzying flair, but this time the dazzling prose is in the service of an expansive story that covers more than a century and seems to encapsulate the whole wide world.

About Great Circle. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost: an "epic trip—through Prohibition and World War II, from Montana to London to present-day Hollywood—and you'll relish every minute" (People).

It's at the level of the sentence and the scene, the small but unforgettable salient detail, that books finally succeed or fail. In that, Great Circle is consistently, often breathtakingly, sound." —Lynn Steger Strong, The New York Times Book Review "Shipstead's eye for detail, character and the moments that tell all make this a true ...

Maggie Shipstead's Great Circle is a beautifully written, sprawling epic of a book about Marian Graves, a fictional female aviator who disappears in 1950 on the final leg of an attempted north-south circumnavigation of the earth. The opening pages make for a vertiginous reading experience because of the many characters, settings, and time ...

'A soaring epic of female adventure and wanderlust' GUARDIAN 'A masterpiece' Nigella Lawson An enthralling journey over oceans and continents and a drama of exhilarating power, GREAT CIRCLE is perfect for book clubs and fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, William Boyd and Delia Owens. _____ I WAS BORN TO BE A WANDERER From the night she is rescued as a baby out of the flames of a sinking ship; to the ...

Great Circle. by Maggie Shipstead. Publication Date: April 5, 2022. Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction. Paperback: 672 pages. Publisher: Vintage. ISBN-10: 1984897705. ISBN-13: 9781984897701. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy.

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