Strong Motion (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Jonathan Franzen
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, 1980’s, Abortion, Disasters, Earthquakes, Natural disasters, Environment or environmental health, Corporations, Hazardous wastes
- Locales: Massachusetts
Earthquakes are rare in Massachusetts, which is all the more reason the citizens are unnerved by a whole series of tremblers of less than 5.0 magnitude on the Richter Scale. These quakes change people’s lives the way war changed lives in Leo Tolstoy’s WAR AND PEACE and Margaret Mitchell’s GONE WITH THE WIND.
Franzen’s story focuses on twenty-three-year-old Louis Holland and thirty-year-old Renee Seitchek, who deduce that the earthquakes are not acts of God but are being created by the illegal pumping of hazardous waste materials deep underground via an abandoned oil well....
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