Strong Motion A Novel

Jonathan Franzen is the author of three novels: The Corrections, The Twenty-Seventh City, and Strong Motion. He has been named one of the Granta 20 Best Novelists under 40 and is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and Harper’s. In Strong Motion, Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first earthquake 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. “Bold, layered. Mr. Franzen lavishes vigorous, expansive prose not only on the big moments of sexual and emotional upheaval, but also on various sideshows and subthemes. An affirmation of Franzen’s fierce imagination and distinctive seriocomic voice. his will be a career to watch.” — Josh Rubins, The New York Times Book Review "Ingenious. Strong Motion is more than a novel with a compelling plot and a...

Author: Franzen Jonathan
ISBN: 9780312420512
Year of publication: 1992
Genre: Modern prose
Number of pages: 584
Reading time: 9 h. 44 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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