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By Colin Mcadam

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Publisher
Penguin Random House
Edition date
2005
ISBN-13
9780099458944

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"Ottawa in the seventies is a field of dreams: a developing city, 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, who has inherited wealth and position, all the trappings of success, but is a cipher of a man, with 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 love is suffocated by work, how individuals are slowly crushed by progress. When both men finally understand what they are losing, and go in search of it, their lives start to intersect, and the story spirals to its astonishing conclusion. A thrillingly original novel about ambition and desire, power and corruption. Some Great Thing has the same epic emotional grandeur as The Great Gatsby. With great skill, and with huge compassion for his broken characters and their thwarted dreams, Colin McAdam has created one of the finest first novels of recent years"--

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  • Man-woman relationships
  • Men
  • Married people
  • Fathers and sons
  • Fiction
  • Husbands
  • Social conditions
  • Self-realization
  • Fiction, general
  • Ontario, fiction
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  • Married people, fiction

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Full title
Some Great Thing
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Pages
368 (Open Library)
ISBN
9780099458944