Freedom

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PRAISE FOR THE CORRECTIONS
"In its gorgeous, sweeping scope and the sympathy of its tone, it owes more to Tolstoy than to Pynchon, but ultimately the novel offers up pleasures that are utterly Franzenian; a sense of exhilaration permeates The Corrections, which is, in part, the exhilaration of a writer who has broken free of his masters." -JOANNA SMITH RAKOFF, POETS WRITERS
"A book which is funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent, and which poses the ultimate question, what life is for-and that is as much as anyone could ask." -BLAKE MORRISON, THE GUARDIAN
"[The Corrections] is everything we want In a novel-except, when it's rocking along, for it Kl3 never to be over." -DAVID GATES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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PATTY AND WALTER BERGLUND were the new pioneers of old St.iaul-the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get... Tovább

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PRAISE FOR THE CORRECTIONS
"In its gorgeous, sweeping scope and the sympathy of its tone, it owes more to Tolstoy than to Pynchon, but ultimately the novel offers up pleasures that are utterly Franzenian; a sense of exhilaration permeates The Corrections, which is, in part, the exhilaration of a writer who has broken free of his masters." -JOANNA SMITH RAKOFF, POETS WRITERS
"A book which is funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent, and which poses the ultimate question, what life is for-and that is as much as anyone could ask." -BLAKE MORRISON, THE GUARDIAN
"[The Corrections] is everything we want In a novel-except, when it's rocking along, for it Kl3 never to be over." -DAVID GATES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
WT*,
PATTY AND WALTER BERGLUND were the new pioneers of old St.iaul-the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter—environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man—she was doing her small part to build a better world.
But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz—outre rocker and Walter's college best friend and rival-still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become "a very different kind of neighbor," an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes?
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 empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
- A READING GROUP GUIDE FOR FREEDOM IS AVAILABLE AT WWW.FSGBOOKS.COM. Vissza