Strong Motion: A Novel

by Jonathan Franzen

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The critically acclaimed second novel from the author of 'The Corrections'.

'Strong Motion' is the brilliant, bold second novel from the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of 'The Corrections' and 'Freedom'. Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings - earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a bitter feud over the inheritance Louis falls in love with Renee Seitchek, a passionate and brilliant seismologist, whose discoveries about the origin of the earthquakes complicate everything. Potent and vivid, 'Strong Motion' is a complex story of change from the forceful imagination of Jonathan Franzen.

  • ISBN10 031242051X
  • ISBN13 9780312420512
  • Publish Date 8 September 2001 (first published 1 January 1992)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 4 May 2023
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint St Martin's Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 508
  • Language English