Strong Motion

Strong Motion

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name = Strong Motion
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Jonathan Franzen
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cover_artist = Jacket design by Paul Bacon
country = United States
language = English
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publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux
release_date = January 1992
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media_type = Print (Hardback and Paperback)
pages = 508 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 0-374-27105-4 (first edition, hardback)
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"Strong Motion" is a 1992 novel by Jonathan Franzen, the author's second novel. "Strong Motion" is part social criticism and part eco-thriller.

Plot Summary

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.


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