';A powerful, poetic, bawdily funny, and tenderly sad novel about class, about love, about drink, about poetics, about land, and about money' (O, The Oprah Magazine). Real estate developer Jerry McGuinty is a self-made man from a blue-collar world, a master craftsman who strives to fill the growing Canadian city of Ottawa with beautiful homes and has a soft spot for his alcoholic, unpredictable wife. Simon Struthers is a civil servant from a prominent, wealthy family who shapes land-use policy, and moves between women, consumed by a frantic emptiness. When their two stories begin to intertwine, their lives and ambitions are set on a collision course. A richly observed story of family, social class, love, and the individual contributions we make to the bigness of the world, Some Great Thing is a reflection on the meaning of home and a ';compelling, bawdy debut' (Publishers Weekly).
| ISBN: | 9781616954444 |
| Publication date: | 21st October 2014 |
| Author: | Colin McAdam |
| Publisher: | Soho Press |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |