Gain, Richard Powers
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Gain, Richard Powers
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eng
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fiction
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Gain
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sound recording audiobook CD
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Richard Powers
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Classics Library
Summary
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. 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
Target audience
adult
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- Classification1
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