The new book of essays from Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen's non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of hi[...]
Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. But after Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a half-starved neighborh[...]
The acclaimed new novel from the author of The Corrections. Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul - the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbour who could tell you where to recycle your batteries[...]
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 encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his feelings about the suicide of his friend and riv[...]
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. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman [...]
Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book is the first full-length study of his work and attempts to articulate where American fiction is headed after postmodernism. Stephen Burn provides a comprehensive analysis [...]
Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings?earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a bitter feud over the inheritance Louis falls in love with Ren?e Seitchek, a passionate and brilliant seismologist, whose discoveries about the origin of th[...]
Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography of one of today's most important novelists. Drawing on unpublished emails and both published and private interviews, Philip Weinstein conveys the feel and heft of Franzen's voice as he ponders the purposes and problems of his life [...]
Despite the success and significance of Jonathan Franzen's fiction, his work has received relatively little scholarly attention. Aiming to fill this conspicuous gap, Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community analyzes each of Franzen's five novels in chronological order to reveal an interior logi[...]
This book gathers 730 daily and Sunday comic strips, the vast majority of which are not currently available in any in-print "Peanuts" collection, and over 100 of which have never been reprinted since their initial appearance in papers over 50 years ago.[...]
The Complete Peanuts 1955-1958 Box Set.
This book gathers 730 daily and Sunday comic strips, the vast majority of which are not currently available in any in-print "Peanuts" collection, and over 100 of which have never been reprinted since their initial appearance in papers over 50 years [...]
#1 National Bestseller
Winner of the John Gardner Fiction Award
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
In his first novel since "The Corrections," Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. "Freedom" comical[...]
The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen, author of the prize winning and internationally bestselling, 'The Corrections'.[...]
The critically acclaimed second novel from the author of 'The Corrections'.
Eine Serie von Erdbeben erschüttert Boston. Als die Großmutter von Louis Holland dabei ums Leben kommt, entbrennt ein erbitterter Familienstreit um ihr Vermögen. Seine Freundin, die junge Seismologin Ren?e, bemüht sich unterdessen, die Ursachen des rätselhaften Bebens zu ergründen. Doch je nä[...]
Franzen über Franzen. In ?Die Unruhezone? erzählt Jonathan Franzen von den Peanuts als kindlicher Ersatzfamilie, seiner Angst vor Urinalen und Duschkabinen, von Vögeln, dem Leben und der Liebe. Zwischen komisch-trotziger Selbsterfahrung und Empathie oszillierend, zeichnet er das Porträt einer[...]
Jonathan Franzen er utropt av Granta til en av Amerikas beste forfattere under førti. Med Korrigeringer har han vunnet The National Book Award, og boken ble årets boksuksess i USA, med hele 900 000 solgte bøker i USA kun i utgivelsesåret. Korrigeringer ble utropt til en av de siste tiårenes mes[...]
Patty og Walter Berglund var en pryd for et hvilket som helst nabolag. Og man kan trygt si at Barrier Street i St. Paul ble en langt hyggeligere gate å bo i etter at de kom. Patty var en misunnelsesverdig mor og Walters drømmehustru. Og Walter -- han syklet daglig til jobben som advokat med miljø[...]
Patty og Walter Berglund har lenge vært en pryd for nabolaget i Barrier Street, men nå har fasaden begynt å slå sprekker. Tenåringssønnen har flyttet inn til naboene, Walter, tidligere advokat med miljøspørsmål som spesialfelt, har begynt å jobbe i kullindustrien, og kona Patty har forvand[...]
Efter næsten halvtreds år som husmor har Enid Lambert lyst til at slå sig lidt løs. Desværre har hendes mand, Alfred, fået parkinsons, og hendes voksne børn - Gary, Chip og Denise - lever ikke helt op til forventningerne, men Enid ønsker sig brændende noget at se frem til,[...]
Patty og Walter Berglund var St. Pauls pionerer, de var først med alt det nye - økologi, social sensitivitet og inddragende børneopdragelse.Men nu, i det nye årtusinde, har familien Berglund udviklet sig til et mysterium. Hvorfor er deres teenagesøn flyttet over til den aggressivt rep[...]