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.
| ISBN: | 9780099458944 |
| Publication date: | 3rd March 2005 |
| Author: | Colin McAdam |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 357 pages |
| Genres: |
Historical Fiction |
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.
Some Great Thing features in the following genres: Historical Fiction
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Some Great Thing was written by Colin McAdam and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
Some Great Thing has 357 pages
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