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The critically acclaimed second novel from the author of ‘The Corrections’.

‘Strong Motion’ is the brilliant, bold second novel from the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of ‘The Corrections’ and ‘Freedom’. 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 Renée Seitchek, a passionate and brilliant seismologist, whose discoveries about the origin of the earthquakes complicate everything. Potent and vivid, ‘Strong Motion’ is a complex story of change from the forceful imagination of Jonathan Franzen.

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14 December 2017
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Jonathan Franzen's work includes four novels (The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections, Freedom), two collections of essays (Farther Away, How To Be Alone), a memoir (The Discomfort Zone), and, most recently, The Kraus Project. He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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'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

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0784VNSKL
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fourth Estate (14 December 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1567 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 604 pages

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Jonathan Franzen is the author of five novels--Purity, Freedom, The Corrections, The Twenty-Seventh City, and Strong Motion--and five works of nonfiction and translation, including Farther Away, How to Be Alone, and The Discomfort Zone, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Kunste, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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JO STIBBARDS

Slow reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 December 2021

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I have not been able to finish this book. The characters making no impact on me at all let alone the story line whatever it is. I will no doubt pick it up again the months ahead and maybe feel differently about it,

Ian Mortimer

Fascinating and relevant, but oh! the typesetting.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 July 2020

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This was a very good read, mixing humour and real current concerns including feminism and the environment, not forgetting sex and violence. The typesetting in the Kindle edition is appalling which is why it only gets three stars. Easily a 4 otherwise. Kindle customers deserve better than this production

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Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 August 2021

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Has to be read to be believed. Franzen is a great writer.

M. Helbert

A good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 January 2019

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Not Franzen's best book, but still a funny, interesting and compelling read.

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PNT

A great writer with his early warnings of what fracking would do

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 January 2019

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This is another example of Franzen combining environmental and political concerns with his study of relationships. I thought it was excellent, having discovered him with later works.

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