Strong Motion Av Jonathan Franzen

<p><b>From the author of <i>Crossroads</i> and <i>The Corrections</i></b><br><br><b><i>New York Times</i></b><b> Bestselling Author</b><br><b>National Book Award Winner</b><br><br><b>¿Jonathan Franzen, an abundantly gifted writer, has even more nerve than talent¿ (<i>The New York Times</i>), and he refuses to play it safe in this bold, layered ecological thriller.</b><br><br>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 a young seismologist, Ren¿Seitchek, whose theory about the origin of the earthquakes turns his world upside down.<br><br><b>¿No doubt about it: Jonathan Franzen . . . is one of the most extraordinary writers around.¿ ¿<i>Newsweek</i></b><br><br><b>¿<i>Strong Motion</i> seems for a while like a brilliant chaos. Bit by bit, the chaos settles . . . the brilliant things remain, and the connections among them begin to a