· “Strong Motion is a roller coaster thriller Franzen captures with unnerving exactness what it feels like to be young, disaffected and outside mainstream America. There is an uncannily perceptive emotional truth to this book, and it strikes with the flinty anger of an early-sixties protest song.” —Will Dana, Mirabella. In Strong Motion, Franzen's second novel, new college graduate Louis Holland moves to Boston to work a minimum wage job at a radio station. An earthquake kills his step-grandmother, his mother inherits her $22 million estate, and Louis has a conflicted relationship /5. I undertook reading "Strong Motion" to find out how Jonathan Franzen came to his reputation as the current great American novelist even before his breakthrough "The Corrections" (). Written in , "Strong Motion" is structured around a central system, like "Gravity's Rainbow" or "Infinite Jest," in this case the geology of earthquakes caused by deep injection wells (as in today's Oklahoma)/5().
Jonathan Earl Franzen (born Aug) is an American novelist, and bltadwin.ru novel The Corrections, a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Strong Motion signaled the start of a turbulent decade for Franzen, as he suffered personal losses—the death of his father; divorce from Valerie Cornell, his wife of fourteen years—and struggled to come to terms with the purpose of writing fiction after his first two novels won critical praise but dishearteningly few readers. "With the tighter concentration on one family, Strong Motion seems narrower than The Twenty-Seventh City" - Stephen Burn, Times Literary Supplement "Franzen has courage. But what Strong Motion demonstrates is that courage is not enough. However laudable Franzen's intentions, and however strong his narrative gifts, he has not been able to.
Strong Motion. By: Jonathan Franzen. Narrated by: Scott Aiello. Length: 20 hrs and 51 mins. Unabridged Audiobook. Categories: Literature Fiction, Genre Fiction. out of 5 stars. ( ratings) Add to Cart failed. “Strong Motion is a roller coaster thriller Franzen captures with unnerving exactness what it feels like to be young, disaffected and outside mainstream America. There is an uncannily perceptive emotional truth to this book, and it strikes with the flinty anger of an early-sixties protest song.” —Will Dana, Mirabella. Strong Motion is a novel by Jonathan Franzen, the author's second novel. The novel was noted by reviewers for its impassioned social criticism, the thoroughness of its research, and its treatment of controversial themes such as abortion, feminism, corporate malfeasance, exploitative capitalism, etc.
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