Gain - by Richard Powers & Shelley Powers (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Three Boston merchant brothers coax from an Irish immigrant the secret of making fine soap, and set into motion a chain of events that spins a family-run cottage soap works into a multinational consumer-goods giant.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>From Pulitzer Prize-winning and <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Overstory</i>, Richard Powers's <i>Gain </i>braids together two stories on very different scales. </b> <p/>In one, Laura Body, divorced mother of two and a real-estate agent in the small town of Lacewood, Illinois, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has ovarian cancer. In the other, Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer begun by three brothers in nineteenth-century Boston, grows over the course of a century and a half into an international consumer products conglomerate based in Laura's hometown. Clare's stunning growth reflects the kaleidoscopic history of America; Laura Body's life is changed forever by Clare. <p/><i>Gain'</i>s stunning conclusion reveals the countless invisible connections between the largest enterprises and the smallest lives.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Powers is a writer of blistering intellect." --<i>Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review</i> <p/>"[<i>Gain</i>] is erudite, penetrating and splendidly written." --<i>Bruce Bawer, The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"Richard Powers has proven himself a visionary writer." --<i>Greil Marcus, The San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle</i> <p/>"<i>Gain </i>only confirms that Powers is, in fact, a major American novelist." --<i>Adam Kirsch, The New Republic</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>RICHARD POWERS</b> is the author of a dozen novels, <i> </i>including <i>The Overstory</i>, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, as well as <i>The Echo Maker</i>, which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction, and is a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains
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