| Some Great Thing Contributor(s): McAdam, Colin (Author) |
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ISBN: 1616954434 ISBN-13: 9781616954437 Publisher: Soho Press OUR PRICE: $16.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2014014470 |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 5.54" W x 8.6" (0.81 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family - Chronological Period - 1970's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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. |