02248cam a2200277 i 4500 771807730 TxAuBib 20210519120000.0 200508s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020021074 9780525656975 HRD 28.95 0525656979 HRD 28.95 DLC eng rda DLC DLC GCmBT NjBwBT TxAuBib rda Shipstead, Maggie, author. Great circle. Great circle [Book] / Maggie Shipstead. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. 593 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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 asit 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 ownstory, as the two womens' fates--and their hunger for self-determination in vastly different geographies and times-- collide. Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leapforward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead"-- Provided by publisher. 20210527. Women Fiction. Pilots and pilotage Fiction.