The winner of the National Book Award, the New York Times No.1 Bestseller and the worldwide literary sensation, 'The Corrections' has established itself as a truly great American novel.
The winner of the National Book Award, the New York Times No.1 Bestseller and the worldwide literary sensation, 'The Corrections' has established itse...
Nach fast fünfzig Jahren als Ehefrau und Mutter ist Enid Lambert entschlossen, ihr Leben ein wenig zu genießen. Alles könnte so angenehm sein, gemütlich, harmonisch - einfach schön. Doch die Parkinsonsche Krankheit hat ihren Mann Alfred immer fester im Griff, und die drei Kinder haben das traute Familienheim längst verlassen - um ihre eigenen tragikomischen Malaisen zu durchleben. Der älteste, Gary, stellvertretender Direktor einer Bank und Familienvater, steckt in einer Ehekrise und versucht mit aller Macht, seine Depressionen kleinzureden. Der mittlere, Chip, steht am Anfang einer...
Nach fast fünfzig Jahren als Ehefrau und Mutter ist Enid Lambert entschlossen, ihr Leben ein wenig zu genießen. Alles könnte so angenehm sein, gemÃ...
Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of THE CORRECTIONS. Jonathan Franzen's THE CORRECTIONS was the best-loved and most written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as 'The Harper's Essay, ' Franzen's controversial 1996 look at the fate of the novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in HOW TO BE ALONE, alongside the personal essays and painstaking, often funny reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of THE CORRECTIONS. Although his subjects range from the...
Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of THE CORRECTIONS. Jonathan Franzen's THE CORRECTIONS was the bes...
The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen, author of the prize winning and internationally bestselling, The Corrections. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, 'The Twenty-Seventh City' shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.
The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen, author of the prize winning and internationally bestselling, The Corrections. St. Louis, M...
A GREAT AMERICAN WRITER'S CONFRONTATION WITH A GREAT EUROPEAN CRITIC-A PERSONAL AND INTELLECTUAL AWAKENING
A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumerism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire. But even though his followers included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, he remained something of a lonely prophet, and few people today are familiar with his work. Thankfully, Jonathan...
A GREAT AMERICAN WRITER'S CONFRONTATION WITH A GREAT EUROPEAN CRITIC-A PERSONAL AND INTELLECTUAL AWAKENING
Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a stray, perhaps rabies-infected cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague the Bentwoods' lives, revealing the fault lines and fractures in a marriage--and a society--wrenching itself apart.
First published in 1970 to wide acclaim, Desperate Characters stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller's craft in postwar...
Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parke...
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections. Franzen returns to the themes that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his relationship with his uncle, recounting his earlier years in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the seabird crisis, these pieces contain all the wit and disabused realism we've come to expect.
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections. Franzen returns to the themes that have lon...
