Strong Motion
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| Author | Jonathan Franzen |
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| Cover artist | Jacket design by Paul Bacon |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication date | January 1992 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback and Paperback) |
| Pages | 508 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-374-27105-4 (first edition, hardback) |
Strong Motion is a 1992 novel by Jonathan Franzen, the author's second novel. Strong Motion is part social criticism and part eco-thriller.
[edit] 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.
