Gain

Gain
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 9781429941693
ISBN-13 : 1429941693
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Book Synopsis Gain by : Richard Powers

Download or read book Gain written by Richard Powers and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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