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Strong motion : a novel / Jonathan Franzen.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franzen, Jonathan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Earthquakes--Fiction.
- Earthquakes.
- Seismologists.
- Seismologists--Fiction.
- Boston (Mass.)--Fiction.
- Boston (Mass.).
- North Shore (Mass. : Coast)--Fiction.
- North Shore (Mass. : Coast).
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Massachusetts--North Shore (Coast).
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 508 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Picador, [1992]
- Summary:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780312420512
- 031242051X
- OCLC:
- 657963104
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