num_pages: 528
description: 'Strong Motion' is the brilliant, bold second novel from the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of 'The Corrections' and 'Freedom'. Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings - earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a bitter feud over the inheritance Louis falls in love with Renee Seitchek, a passionate and brilliant seismologist, whose discoveries about the origin of the earthquakes start to complicate everything. Potent and vivid, 'Strong Motion' is a complex story of change from the forceful imagination of Jonathan Franzen.
language: English
title: Strong Motion
titlecomplete: Strong Motion
characters: Peter Stoorhuys, Philip Stites, Louis Holland, Renée Seitchek, Lauren Bowles, Bob Holland, Howard Chun, Eileen Holland, Melanie Holland
genres: Audiobook, 20th Century, American, Unfinished, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 5769
places: Greater Boston, Massachusetts
publisher: Harpercollins Pb