Gains (French Edition)

by Richard Powers, Jean DEMANUELLI (Translator), Claude DEMANUELLI (Translator)

Overview

1830. La famille Clare crée à Boston une fabrique de savon. Un siècle et demi plus tard, trustant l'industrie des détergents et l'ère du marketing, la voilà multinationale. 1998. Quarante ans, mère divorcée, Laura Bodey est courtier immobilier à Lacewood, siège des usines Clare Inc. Dans l'ombre de l'empire Clare, sa vie va soudain basculer, piégée par le cancer capitaliste...

Revisitant l'histoire folle du libéralisme, Richard Powers interroge l'état du monde, se glisse dans le secret des êtres et signe un roman visionnaire, provocateur et bouleversant.

Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis)
Par Claude et Jean Demanuelli

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782823882070
Publisher:	Univers Poche
Publication date:	09/16/2021
Sold by:	EDITIS - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	455
File size:	2 MB
Language:	French

About the Author

Richard Powers is the author of thirteen novels, including The Overstory, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, as well as The Echo Maker, which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Powers has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Historical Fiction, and is a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. He lives in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Hometown:

Urbana, Illinois

Date of Birth:

June 18, 1957

Place of Birth:

Evanston, Illinois

Education:

M.A., University of Illinois, 1979