by Richard Powers · Macmillan USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780312429096
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«Gain» is Richard Powers's novel in paperback (416 pages, in English).
The novel interweaves two stories: Laura Body, a divorced mother and real estate agent in Lacewood (Illinois), faces ovarian cancer, while Clare & Company, a soap manufacturer in nineteenth-century Boston, ends up becoming an international conglomerate based in her city.
Winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize in 1999; the work was originally published in 1998. The edition described is from 2009.
For readers of literary and historical fiction who enjoy dual plots about personal life and the corporate history of the United States.
Richard Powers is an American novelist whose works explore the effects of modern science and technology. His novel The Echo Maker won the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction. He has also won many other awards over the course of his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship. As of 2024, Powers has published fourteen novels and has taught at the University of Illinois and Stanford University. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Overstory.
