Strong Motion: A Novel
Aug 2010 · Sold by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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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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August 29, 2012
There are plenty of rewards in here - great characters (not so much the Holland family members, but Renee and Stites and Lauren), interesting insights about romance and religion, and a tale of eco-villainy that seems melodramatic and absurd yet actually foreshadowed the current spate of reports connecting natural-gas fracking to earthquakes. If you loved The Corrections and Freedom, you'll at least like this one.
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June 7, 2009
Jonathan Franzen is a great writer of mundane detail and this book contains some extraordinary descriptions of everyday occurrences. This book is nowhere near as good as the Corrections but it's not bad either. If you loved the Corrections it's probably worth a read.
About the author
Jonathan Franzen is the author of novels such as The Corrections (2001), Freedom (2010), and Crossroads (2021), and works of nonfiction, including Farther Away (2012) and The End of the End of the Earth (2018), all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
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