Strong Motion

Name: Strong Motion
Brand: FOURTH ESTATE
SKU: 195607
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JONATHAN FRANZEN

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ISBN

9781841157498

Mladinska knjiga ID

195607

Leto izida

2004

Velikost (šxdxv)

150 × 200 × 10

Status dobavljivosti

7-10 delovnih dni

Jezik

ANG

Teža

300 g

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FOURTH ESTATE

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JONATHAN FRANZEN

Opis

The critically acclaimed second novel from the author of 'The Corrections'. Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings -- earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a bitter feud over the inheritance Louis falls in love with Renee Seitchek, a passionate and brilliant seismologist, whose discoveries about the origin of the earthquakes complicate everything.

Publisher and industry reviews:

Jacket review
'By sheer force of his imaginative writing and his unsheathed views of American life, Franzen succeeds in joining together a love story, a family story, and a corporate-cum-environmental story!Distinctly original.' The New York Times 'No doubt about it: Jonathan Franzen is one of the most extraordinary writers around.' Newsweek 'Ingeniously put together!His ear for American vernacular is flawless!His gift for description has a kinetic immediacy.' The Seattle Times 'Bold, layered!an elaborate construct, with the stuff of several books crammed into one!An affirmation of Franzen's fierce imagination and distinctive seriocomic voice.' New York Times Book Review

UK Kirkus review
If you thought that Angry Young Men were by now just a slice of literary history, Jonathan Franzen's novel, published for the first time in Britain, will bring you sharply up to date. In Strong Motion, the young Louis Holland is very angry indeed: mad at his mom, his sister, his job and his entire life - and getting involved as well in the possible causes of some inexplicable earthquakes on the east coast of the US centred around Boston. As a book, Strong Motion fights on a dangerously broad front, being at the same time an eco-thriller about pollution, with a linked and often highly technical seismological side-plot and, best of all, an acutely perceptive and bleakly funny tale about the horrid dysfunctional families with which its hero is involved. The latter narrative is by far the strongest part of the book: sometimes it has the authentic voice of the late, great Peter de Vries, or of the confused and cynical youth who was the narrator in J D Salinger's Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenter. It is difficult to extrapolate gags or even snippets from Franzen's stylish prose, for this is the type of author who gives himself plenty of space, while upon the other hand his hero Louis is a young man of very few words indeed. Franzen's imagination is boundless, but he does have a problem restraining it sometimes, which involves dragging the storyline off the rails into countless little disappointing sidings that lead nowhere. But the book is packed with thrills and high-class laconic fun - and although there are longueurs along the way, Strong Motion is sufficiently action-packed to hold the attention on a series of wet afternoons or a bumpy flight - and its surprising finale is guaranteed to satisfy the most demanding reader. (Kirkus UK)