Gain A Novel |
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| Author:
| Powers, Richard |
| ISBN: | 978-0-312-42909-6 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2009 |
| Publisher: | Picador
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning andNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Overstory, Richard Powers'sGainbraids together two stories on very different scales. In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston,...
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From Pulitzer Prize-winning andNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Overstory, Richard Powers'sGainbraids together two stories on very different scales.
In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston, grows over the course of a century and a half into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown. Clare's stunning growth reflects the kaleidoscopic history of America; Laura Body'slife is changed forever by Clare.
Gain's stunning conclusion reveals the countless invisible connections between the largest enterprises and the smallest lives.