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Strong Motion

✍ Scribed by Franzen Johnthan


Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Leaves
528
Category
Library

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✦ Synopsis


Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.


Abstract: Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything

✦ Subjects


Earthquakes;Massachusetts;North Shore;Fiction;Seismologists;Massachusetts;Boston;Fiction;Earthquakes;Seismologists;Massachusetts;Boston;Massachusetts;North Shore (Coast)


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