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Gain

Gain

Powers, Richard

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Publisher Price: $28.99

ISBN10: 0312429096
ISBN13: 9780312429096
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Sep 29 2009
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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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