Some Great Thing
Paperback or Softback 416 pages Oct 21, 2014
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"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.
- Author:
- Colin McAdam
- Publisher:
- Soho Press
- Publication Date:
- Oct 21, 2014
- Number of pages:
- 416 pages
- Binding:
- Paperback or Softback
- ISBN-10:
- 1616954434
- ISBN-13:
- 9781616954437