Some Great Thing

Some Great Thing
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Publisher : Soho Press
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9781616954437
ISBN-13 : 1616954434
Rating : 4/5 (434 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Some Great Thing by : Colin McAdam

Download or read book Some Great Thing written by Colin McAdam and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A powerful, poetic, bawdily funny, and tenderly sad novel about class, about love, about drink, about poetics, about land, and about money—a few of the salient things that life and history are made of.” —O, The Oprah Magazine In his highly acclaimed debut novel, Colin McAdam depicts the struggle between two men involved in building a city’s future: developer Jerry McGuinty, blue collar, selfmade, a master craftsman, and Simon Struthers, a civil servant from a prominent, wealthy background who shapes land-use policy. Jerry has a blind spot for his alcoholic wife, and Simon moves between women, consumed by a frantic emptiness. When their two stories begin to intertwine, their lives and ambitions are set on a collision course. A richly observed story of family, class, love and the individual contributions we make to the bigness of the world, Some Great Thing is a powerful work from one of the most exciting voices of his generation.


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