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Gain

by Richard Powers · 2010

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Playground braids together two very different stories in a novel on "the Promethean messianism of corporate America" (Greil Marcus, San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle). In one story, 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. In the other, 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 ba

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