Gain
A Novel
Gain braids 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's life is changed forever by Clare. The novel's stunning conclusion reveals the countless in…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4299-4169-3
- EAN: 9781429941693
- Produktnummer: 22469682
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 606 KB
- Auflage: First Edition
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Richard Powers
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