{"product_id":"some-great-thing-paperback-by-colin-mcadam","title":"Some Great Thing Paperback by Colin McAdam","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003ePenguin Canada\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2009-03-03)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e465\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780143171799\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e396.9\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e8.2 x 5.2 x 1.1\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eThe time is the seventies. The place is Ottawa, a developing city ready for the taking. Two men from very different backgrounds take up the challenge: Jerry McGuinty, plasterer turned builder, a simple, self-made man who claims he can plaster a wall that will change your life; and Simon Struthers, a disaffected businessman whose inherited wealth and position cannot fill the hollowness he feels inside. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith their different careers and successes, these two strangers seek to carve out their own happiness—Jerry with his new wife and Simon with his endless affairs and intrigues. As the men's careers and successes run parallel, we see how love is suffocated by work and how individuals are crushed by greed and \"progress.\" With skill, energy, humour and poetry, Colin McAdam creates a world of ambition and desire, power and corruption. \u003ci\u003eSome Great Thing\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most thrillingly original novels in years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eCOLIN McADAM has written for \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/i\u003e. His novel \u003ci\u003eA Beautiful Truth\u003c\/i\u003e won the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. It was also a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and named a \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eSome Great Thing\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award and was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in the U.K. His second novel, \u003ci\u003eFall\u003c\/i\u003e, was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and awarded the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize. He lives in Chelsea, Quebec.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44900688396449,"sku":"BBSNIJ9780143171799","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9780143171799.jpg?v=1744360057","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/some-great-thing-paperback-by-colin-mcadam","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}