Some Great Thing
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0156032147 / Publisher: Harvest Books, April 2005
Two men--one a self-made contractor, the other a disaffected businessman--become friends and seek to find happiness in a world that seems bent on keeping both of them dissatisfied with their lives. A first novel. Reprint.
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Jerry McGuinty is a simple, self-made builder who claims he can plaster a wall that will change your life. Simon Struthers is a disaffected businessman who proves the old adage about money and happiness. Together they face the new Ottawa of the seventies: brash, bright, and ready for the taking. With their different careers and successes, these two strangers seek to carve out their own happiness-Jerry with his new wife, Simon with his endless affairs and intrigues. But love can be suffocated by the drive to succeed, and individuals crushed by greed and progress. Only when both men realize what they have to lose will their lives finally intersect and the story spiral to its astonishing conclusion
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