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 one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause...
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Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one 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.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429957823 (1429957824)
Publish date: August 30th 2010
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
Although not as good as either The Corrections or Freedom, it was still a solid read. I keep trying to get people to read Franzen, so much so that I've even been accused of having a man-crush on him, but I still haven't been able to turn one person on to him. That's too bad. He really is a gifted...
Definitely, one of the worst books I've ever read.Even Dan Brown's stuff has more talent to offer. Strong Motion looks like one of those juvenile stories that every novelist keeps hidden in the bottom of a drawer.I just remember a ridicolous plot cooked with earthquakes, Sonic Youth, cliches about C...
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