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010 $a 2014014470
020 $a9781616954437 (pbk.) :$cNT$595
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 00$aPR9199.4.M38$bS66 2014
082 04$a813.6$222
100 1 $aMcAdam, Colin.
245 10$aSome great thing /$cColin McAdam.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bSoho,$c[2014].
300 $a398 p. ;$c21 cm.
520 $a"Ottawa in the seventies is a field of dreams: a developing city, ripe for the taking. Two men, from different ends of society, see the opportunities: Jerry McGuinty, plasterer-turned-builder, a simple, self-made man, and Simon Struthers, who has inherited wealth and position, all the trappings of success, but is a cipher of a man, with nothing inside him but longing. As their careers and successes run in parallel - Jerry with his new wife, Kathleen, who likes a drinkeven more than she likes him, and Simon with his endless affairs and intrigues - we begin to see how love is suffocated by work, how individuals are slowly crushed by progress. When both men finally understand what they are losing, and go in search of it, their lives start to intersect, and the story spirals to its astonishing conclusion. A thrillingly original novel about ambition and desire, power and corruption. Some Great Thing has the same epic emotional grandeur as TheGreat Gatsby. With great skill, and with huge compassion for his broken characters and their thwarted dreams, Colin McAdam has created one of the finest first novels of recent years"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0$aMarried people$vFiction.
650 0$aFathers and sons$vFiction.
651 0$aOttawa (Ont.)$vFiction.