Some Great Thing

Jerry McGuinty is a simple, self-made builder who claims he can plaster a wall that will change your life. Simon Struthers is a disaffected businessman who proves the old adage about money and happiness. Together they face the new Ottawa of the seventies: brash, bright, and ready for the taking. With their different careers and successes, these two strangers seek to carve out their own happiness-Jerry with his new wife, Simon with his endless affairs and intrigues. But love can be suffocated by the drive to succeed, and individuals crushed by greed and progress. Only when both men realize what they have to lose will their lives finally intersect and the story spiral to its astonishing conclusion

COLIN McADAM is a Canadian who grew up in Hong Kong, Denmark, England, and Canada, and now divides his time between Sydney and Montreal. Some Great Thing is his first book.

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Kathleen on Wednesday"JERRY MCGUINTY WAS my husband for fifteen years.""Oh, yeah?""Twenty.""But Jerry McGuinty's rich.""I'm rich. From a phone call, I'll be.""But you weren't really married to Jerry McGuinty.""Watch where you're cuttin.""How come you're not rich?""I am rich. Where's Lisa anyway? It takes a phone call, like I'm, like I'm one of them people, you know, calling. Cut my hair. Where's Lisa?!""I told ya. She's sick.""What do ya mean, sick?""The clap.""Ohhh. Lisa?""Yep.""Who are you?""Joanie. I told you. See, it's here. Look in the mirror there. Joanie.""Joanie.""So your last name's McGuinty?""It is.""How come it's Herlihy?""It's McGuinty.""Says in the book, Herlihy. Mrs. Herlihy, ten o'clock, cut and set.""Don't you set my hair. I won't pay if you set me.""All right, Mrs. Herlihy.""Herlihy, eh? Haven't heard that in a while.""But ya gave that as your name.""Herlihy's a pretty name, too.""Herlihy is a pretty name.""A Herlihy doesn't get the clap. Not a Kathleen Herlihy.""No, ma'am, not a Joanie neither.""McGuinty's a name.""McGuinty's a name all right.""My name for fifteen years or so. Smoke?""No thank you.""Give ya some cheekbones.""No thank you, ma'am. I got cheekbones.""Where?""I got cheekbones as much as you was married to Jerry McGuinty.""Where's Lisa fer shit's sakes? You tell me where Lisa is.""I told you. Lisa's dead.""What?""She died last week.""Lisa?""Yep. Just after she married Jerry McGuinty.""What?""Lisa's sick.""You tell her to get better.""You tell me what it was like being married to Jerry McGuinty.""You cut my hair.""I'm cuttin your hair.""Arse. Jerry McGuinty was the biggest...You mind your own biggest.""Business.""What?""All I know is, I wouldn't be sittin in that chair if I was married to Jerry McGuinty. I wouldn't be gettin my hair cut by me, that's what I know, if I was married to Jerry friggin McGuinty.""I could afford! I could pay for more than this. Who are you?""I'm Joanie.""You're not Joanie. I was married to Joanie.""Joanie McGuinty?""Jerry. Jerry McGuinty was my husband for twenty years."AND I GOTTA buy cheese.I gotta buy cheese."Cheese?""Aisle three.""Three?""Three."I can count. I can count. Comb your freakin hair, you ugly freakin freak, is all I want, is all I want is cheese. Three cheese."Where's aisle three?""What?""Aisle three fer shit's sakes." What do ya want with cheese? "What do ya want with cheese?""What?""I'm so fuckin thirsty.""Do you need help?""I want some fuckin cheese.""Aisle three, ma'am. That way, ma'am.""What?""That way, ma'am."He was sweet, that boy. That way, ma'am, that way. Cheese? Over there, over there by that way, ma'am, ya grubby little freak. "Which way?""Pardon?""Where'd he go?""Who, ma'am?""The grocery boy. He'll bring me a stick of cheese." That's it, that's right. Run away."DRINK?""Ya can't drink here, ma'am. This is a hairdresser's.""I'll just have a drink.""Ya can't, Mrs. Herlihy. This is

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