The Twenty-Seventh City - Softcover

Franzen, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374525056 ISBN 13: 9780374525057

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1997

Synopsis

S. Jammu, a young, ambitious Indian woman, is sworn in as police chief of St. Louis where the acts of private citizens are monitored and the actions of Martin Probst and his family threaten to destroy her plan

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Review:

"A novel so imaginatively and expansively of our times that it seems ahead of them."—Richard Eder, "The Los Angeles Times "
"A startling, scathing first novel about American ambition, power, politics, money, corruption and apathy."—Jeff Jarvis, "People"
"Franzen has managed to put together a suspense story with the elements of a complex, multilayered psychological novel . . . A riveting piece of fiction that lingers in the mind long after more conventional potboilers have bubbled away." —Peter Andrews, "The New York Times Book Review"
"Franzen goes for broke here--he's out to expose the soul of a city and all the bloody details of the way we live . . . Franzen has written a book of range, pith, intelligence."—Margo Jefferson, "Vogue"
"A weird hybrid of realism and fantasy: municipal science fiction. Everything proceeds from a daring, outrageously unlikely premise."—Terrence Rafferty, "The New Yorker"
"Mr. Franzen has proved with this im

"A suspense story with the elements of a complex, multilayered psychological novel...Lingers in the mind long after more conventional potboilers have bubbled away."--"The New York Times Book Review
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"A novel so imaginatively and expansively of our times that it seems ahead of them."--Richard Eder, "Los Angeles Times"

A suspense story with the elements of a complex, multilayered psychological novel...Lingers in the mind long after more conventional potboilers have bubbled away. "The New York Times Book Review"

A novel so imaginatively and expansively of our times that it seems ahead of them. "Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times""

"A suspense story with the elements of a complex, multilayered psychological novel...Lingers in the mind long after more conventional potboilers have bubbled away." --The New York Times Book Review

"A novel so imaginatively and expansively of our times that it seems ahead of them." --Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels, including Freedom, the National Book Award-winning The Corrections, and Strong Motion; a personal history, The Discomfort Zone; two collections of essays, Farther Away and How to Be Alone; and translations of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening and Karl Kraus's essays titled The Kraus Project. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0374525056
• ISBN 13: 9780374525057
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 517