Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen is the author of five novels, including The Corrections, Freedom, and Purity, and five works of nonfiction, most recently Farther Away and The End of the End of the Earth, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
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A Key to All Mythologies
Jonathan Franzen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
It’s December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless—unless...
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Available 10/05/2021
Pre-OrderThe End of the End of the Earth
Jonathan Franzen
Picador
Picador
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections—now with a new epilogue
The essayist, Jonathan...
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The Twenty-Seventh City
Picador Modern Classics
Jonathan Franzen; With an Introduction by Philip Weinstein
Picador
Picador
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...
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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...
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The Kraus Project
Jonathan Franzen / 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...
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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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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
Franzen's dazzling follow-up to The Twenty-Seventh City is about earthquakes, pollution, love, and abortion rights.
Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring...
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