Some Great Thing

Ottawa in the seventies is colourless, cold, and aching for character, ripe for the taking. Two men, from different ends of society, see the opportunities: Jerry McGuinty, plasterer-turned-builder, a simple, self-made man, and Simon Struthers, with inherited wealth and position, but nothing inside him but longing. As their careers and successes run in parallel - Jerry with his new wife, Kathleen, who likes a drink even more than she likes him, and Simon with his endless affairs and intrigues - we begin to see how a landscape can be shaped by desire. When both men realise that something is missing, and go in search of it, their lives start to intersect, and the story spirals to its astonishing conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Colin McAdam, McAdam Colin
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2005
• EAN: 9780099458944
• ISBN: 978-0-09-945894-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; c 1970 to c 1979, FICTION / World Literature / Canada / 21st Century, Eastern Ontario: Ottawa / National Capital Region, fall; tragedy