Some great thing

Colin McAdam

earliest edition we have, 2004 Harcourt, 2004 403 pages

"Ottawa in the seventies is a field of dreams: a developing city, ripe for the taking. Two men, from different ends of society, see the opportunities: Jerry McGuinty, plasterer-turned-builder, a simple, self-made man, and Simon Struthers, who has inherited wealth and position, all the trappings of success, but is a cipher of a man, with nothing inside him but longing. As their careers and successes run in parallel -...

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Editions we hold

Some Great Thing edition · 2014 · Soho Press, Incorporated · 416 pages · 9781616954444
Some great thing edition · 2014 · Soho · 398 pages · 9781616954437
Some Great Thing paperback · 2005 · Harvest Books · 416 pages · 9780156032148
Some Great Thing edition · 2005 · Penguin Random House · 368 pages · 9780099458944
Some Great Thing edition · 2005 · Raincoast · 9781551928050
Some great thing edition · 2004 · Jonathan Cape · 357 pages
Some great thing edition · 2004 · Raincoast Books · 403 pages
Some great thing edition · 2004 · Harcourt · 403 pages

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