num_pages: 608
description: An alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780525656975 can be found here. Spanning Prohibition-era Montana the Pacific Northwest Alaska New Zealand wartime London and modern-day Los Angeles Great Circle tells the unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life at any cost.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. Thereafter encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanesMarian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger 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 by flying over the North and South Poles.A century later Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in a film that centers on Marian's disappearance in Antarctica. Vibrant canny disgusted with the claustrophobia of Hollywood Hadley is eager to redefine 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 women's fatesand their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and timescollide. Epic and emotional meticulously researched and gloriously told Great Circle is a monumental work of art and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead.
language: English
title: Great Circle
publisher: Knopf