Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen is the author of Purity and four other novels, most recently The Corrections and Freedom, and five works of nonfiction and translation, including Farther Away and The Kraus Project, all published by FSG. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Künste, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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The End of the End of the Earth
Jonathan Franzen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections
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The Twenty-Seventh City
Picador Modern Classics
Jonathan Franzen; With an Introduction by Philip Weinstein
Picador
Picador Modern Classics
25th Anniversary Edition
Picador Modern Classics
Published in 1988, Jonathan Franzen's The Twenty-Seventh City is the debut novel of a writer who would come to define our times....
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The Kraus Project
Jonathan Franzen and Karl Kraus
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic—a personal and intellectual awakening
A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most...
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Farther Away
Jonathan Franzen
Picador
Picador
In this incisive collection of speeches and essays, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recalling his violent...
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Spring Awakening
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First performed in Germany in 1906, Frank Wedekind's controversial play Spring Awakening closed after one night in New York in 1917 amid charges of obscenity and public outrage. For the better...
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The Discomfort Zone
Jonathan Franzen
Picador
Picador
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen's tale of growing up, squirming in his own über-sensitive skin, from a "small and fundamentally...
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How to Be Alone
Jonathan Franzen
Picador
Picador
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics
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The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Picador
Picador
Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.
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Strong Motion
Jonathan Franzen
Picador
Picador
Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence,...
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