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Some great thingColin McAdam

Some great thing

2004403 pages
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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…

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8 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2005
    Harvest Books · 416 pages · 9780156032148
  • Other · English · 2014
    Soho · 398 pages · 9781616954437
  • Other · English · 2014
    Soho Press, Incorporated · 416 pages · 9781616954444
  • Other · English · 2005
    Raincoast · 9781551928050
  • Other · English · 2005
    Penguin Random House · 368 pages · 9780099458944
  • Other · English · 2004
    Raincoast Books · 403 pages · 9781551926957
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