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Strong Motion
Contributor(s): Franzen, Jonathan (Author)
ISBN: 031242051X     ISBN-13: 9780312420512
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
OUR PRICE:   $17.00  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2001
* Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 91011915
Physical Information: 0.92" H x 5.54" W x 8.16" (0.92 lbs) 528 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - New England
- Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts
 
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Publisher Description:

From THE NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of The Corrections and Freedom

New York Times Bestselling Author
National Book Award Winner

"Jonathan Franzen, an abundantly gifted writer, has even more nerve than talent" (The New York Times), and he refuses to play it safe in this bold, layered ecological thriller.

Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings--earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a bitter feud over the inheritance, Louis falls in love with a young seismologist, Ren e Seitchek, whose theory about the origin of the earthquakes turns his world upside down.

"No doubt about it: Jonathan Franzen . . . is one of the most extraordinary writers around." --Newsweek

"Strong Motion seems for a while like a brilliant chaos. Bit by bit, the chaos settles . . . the brilliant things remain, and the connections among them begin to appear." --Los Angeles Times

Contributor Bio(s): Franzen, Jonathan: - Jonathan Franzen is the author of Purity, The Corrections, Freedom, among other novels, and five works of nonfiction and translation, including Farther Away and The Kraus Project, all published by FSG. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Künste, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.