Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen (.ePUB)
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Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen
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Overview: An earthquake that 23-year-old Louis Holland doesn’t even feel shakes the Boston area and sets in motion a chain of events in this multilayered, metaphor-studded novel with a love story at its core. After Louis’s step-grandmother is the quake’s only fatality, his mother inherits millions in stock of chemical company Sweeting-Aldren, and Louis meets seismologist Renee Seitchek, who shares her bed and her theory with him. When tremors continue in the Northeast, scientists study fault lines, a fundamentalist anti-abortion minister credits God’s wrath, and Renee suggests “induced seismicity” from Sweeting-Aldren’s longtime secret pumping of industrial wastes into a deep well.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of five novels–Purity, Freedom, The Corrections, The Twenty-Seventh City, and Strong Motion–and five works of nonfiction and translation, including Farther Away, How to Be Alone, and The Discomfort Zone, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Kunste, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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