The author of "The Corrections" combines elements of love, family and the environment in this imaginative view of American life.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of 'The Twenty-Seventh City', 'Strong Motion', 'The Corrections' and 'How to be Alone'. His fiction and nonfiction appear frequently in The New Yorker and Harper's, and he was named one of the best American novelists under forty by Granta and The New Yorker. He lives in New York City.
The author of "The Corrections" combines elements of love, family and the environment in this imaginative view of American life.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of 'The Twenty-Seventh City', 'Strong Motion', 'The Corrections' and 'How to be Alone'. His fiction and nonfiction appear frequently in The New Yorker and Harper's, and he was named one of the best American novelists under forty by Granta and The New Yorker. He lives in New York City.
The critically acclaimed second novel from the author of 'The Corrections'. / The brilliant and bold second novel from Jonathan Franzen. / 'The Corrections' was winner of the National Book Award in 2001 and has sold over 250,000 copies in the UK alone. / 'The Corrections' was a New York Times No.1 Bestseller. / Competition: David Foster Wallace; Don DeLillo; John Updike; Philip Roth
Jonathan Franzen's work includes four novels (The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections, Freedom), two collections of essays (Farther Away, How To Be Alone), a memoir (The Discomfort Zone), and, most recently, The Kraus Project. He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.
'By sheer force of his imaginative writing and his unsheathed views of American life, Franzen succeeds in joining together a love story, a family story, and a corporate-cum-environmental story!Distinctly original.' The New York Times 'No doubt about it: Jonathan Franzen is one of the most extraordinary writers around.' Newsweek 'Ingeniously put together!His ear for American vernacular is flawless!His gift for description has a kinetic immediacy.' The Seattle Times 'Bold, layered!an elaborate construct, with the stuff of several books crammed into one!An affirmation of Franzen's fierce imagination and distinctive seriocomic voice.' New York Times Book Review
'By sheer force of his imaginative writing and his unsheathed views of American life, Franzen succeeds in joining together a love story, a family story, and a corporate-cum-environmental story!Distinctly original.' The New York Times 'No doubt about it: Jonathan Franzen is one of the most extraordinary writers around.' Newsweek 'Ingeniously put together!His ear for American vernacular is flawless!His gift for description has a kinetic immediacy.' The Seattle Times 'Bold, layered!an elaborate construct, with the stuff of several books crammed into one!An affirmation of Franzen's fierce imagination and distinctive seriocomic voice.' New York Times Book Review
Debates over women's reproductive rights and environmental disasters rattle the lives of young lovers in Boston in Franzen's ( The Twenty-Seventh City ) second intellectual thriller. (Apr.)
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