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by Richard Powers
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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard PowersPublish date:2009-09-29Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312429096ISBN-10:312429096UPC:9780312429096Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCDRY6Y2B0

From Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Overstory, Richard Powers's 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.

Gain's stunning conclusion reveals the countless invisible connections between the largest enterprises and the smallest lives.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312429096ISBN-10:312429096UPC:9780312429096Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCDRY6Y2B0
RICHARD POWERS is the author of a dozen novels, including The Overstory, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, as well as The Echo Maker, which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction, and is a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains
Publisher: Picador USA

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