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Farther Away

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Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. In The New York Times Book Review, Sam Tanenhaus proclaimed it "e;a masterpiece of American fiction"e; and lauded its illumination "e;through the steady radiance of its author's profound moral intelligence, [of] the world we thought we knew."e;In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigour 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 the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways in which technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen's implicit promise to conceal nothing. Taken together, his essays trace the progress of a unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature and with some of the most important issues of our day.

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ISBN: 9781443410984
Publication date: 22nd May 2012
Author: Franzen, Jonathan
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Ebook (Epub)