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Jonathan Franzen

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In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of …

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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. …

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Korekty – powieść Jonathana Franzena wydana w USA w roku 2001 przez oficynę Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Polskie wydanie ukazało się nakładem Świata Książki trzy lata później. Korekty zdobyły rozgłos i znakomite recenzje wśród znawców literatury, książka Franzena osiągnęła sukces, nie tylko w USA. Autor otrzymał za nią …

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An Amazon Best Book of September 2015: Purity takes many forms in Franzen’s new novel—to begin with, it is the name of the book’s title character. “Pip,” as she is more commonly known, is not fond of her given name, and when we first meet her she is living in a crowded Oakland house under the burden of colossal …