Farther Away: Jonathan Franzen - Softcover

Franzen, Jonathan

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9780007459537: Farther Away: Jonathan Franzen

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ISBN 10: 000745953X ISBN 13: 9780007459537

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 2013

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Paperback. Pub Date :2013-04-25 Pages: 336 Language: English Publisher: Harpercollins The new book of articles and opinion from Jonathan Franzen. author of Freedom and The Corrections.Jonathan Franzens Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010. an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now. a new collection of Franzens non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of his vivid. moral intelligence. confirming his status not only as a great American novelist but also as a master noticer . social critic. and self-investigator.In Farther Away. which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years. the writer returns with renewed vigor to the themes. both human and literary. that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus. examining his mixed feelings about ...

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‘Franzen’s words crackle with wit humour and wisdom’ Shortlist

‘Franzen is arguably America’s greatest living novelist ... In this anthology of magazine assignments, social criticism and cobweb-clearing travel journalism, he writes continually about writing and reading, luxuriating in language and sticking up for literature for literature’s sake. It’s a mostly thrilling journey ...Franzen’s meditations on literature form the meat of this collection ...Though seemingly preoccupied with writing and literature, his essays travel many subjects and moods.’ Paul Clements, Daily Telegraph.

‘In a book that is never less than superbly intelligent...Franzen’s wit and loving kindness comes as abrupt surprises as if a glossy, paunchy bishop has suddenly started to play hopscotch.’ Richard Davernport-Hines, The Spectator

About the Author:

Jonathan Franzen was born in 1959 and graduated from Swarthmore College. He has lived in Boston, Spain, New York, Colorado Springs and Philadelphia. His other novels are ‘The Twenty-Seventh City’, ‘Strong Motion’, ‘The Corrections’ and ‘Freedom’. He is also the author of ‘How To Be Alone’, a collection of non-fiction, and ‘The Discomfort Zone’, a memoir. His fiction and non-fiction 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.

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