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by Jonathan Franzen
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jonathan FranzenPublish date:2003-10-01Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312422165ISBN-10:312422164UPC:9780312422165Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:EssaysSize:8.32 x 5.54 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCZF34MR1A

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics

While the essays in this collection range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each one wrestles with the essential themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civil life and private dignity; and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Reprinted here for the first time is Franzen's controversial l996 investigation of the fate of the American novel in what became known as "the Harper's essay," as well as his award-winning narrative of his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease, and a rueful account of his brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312422165ISBN-10:312422164UPC:9780312422165Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:EssaysSize:8.32 x 5.54 x 0.77 inchesWeight:0.6107Product ID:SCZF34MR1A
Jonathan Franzen is the author of novels such as The Corrections (2001), Freedom (2010), and Crossroads (2021), and works of nonfiction, including Farther Away (2012) and The End of the End of the Earth (2018), all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Publisher: Picador USA

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