Gain
From Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of The Overstory, Richard Powers's Gain braids together two stories on very different scales.
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.
Gain's stunning conclusion reveals the countless invisible connections between the largest enterprises and the smallest lives.
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"Powers is a writer of blistering intellect." --Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"[Gain] is erudite, penetrating and splendidly written." --Bruce Bawer, The New York Times Book Review
"Richard Powers has proven himself a visionary writer." --Greil Marcus, The San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
"Gain only confirms that Powers is, in fact, a major American novelist." --Adam Kirsch, The New Republic
