Some Great Thing

Some Great Thing

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Ottawa in the seventies is colourless, cold, and aching for character, ripe for the taking. Two men, from different ends of society, see the opportunities: Jerry McGuinty, plasterer-turned-builder, a simple, self-made man, and Simon Struthers, with inherited wealth and position, but nothing inside him but longing.As their careers and successes run in parallel – Jerry with his new wife, Kathleen, who likes a drink even more than she likes him, and Simon with his endless affairs and intrigues – we begin to see how a landscape can be shaped by desire. When both men realise that something is missing, and go in search of it, their lives start to intersect, and the story spirals to its astonishing conclusion.

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Weight 0.255 kg
Dimensions 2.4 × 12.9 × 19.7 cm
Format
language1
Pages

368
Publisher

Year Published

2005-3-3
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0099458942
About The Author

Colin McAdam is a Canadian who grew up in Hong Kong, Denmark, England and Canada. After completing a doctorate in England, he moved to Sydney, Australia, where he now lives. His second novel, Fall, was published in 2009 to critical acclaim.

An extraordinary novel… A beautiful tragedy and a series of painful, yet oddly exquisite surprises… Some Great Thing promises to be not just the fiction debut of the year, but also its highlight
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This is an extraordinary, powerful novel: technically ambitious, passionate and beautifully observed, filled with the truth of human frailty, the mystery of crafts and the stark bewilderment of love

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