How to be Alone Jonathan Franzen

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"The Harper's Essay" is reprinted in this volume alongside personal essays and painstaking, often funny reportage. Although his subjects range widely, each piece wrestles with the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern America.

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How to be Alone by Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Frantzen's "The Harper's Essay" is reprinted in "How To Be Alone", alongside the personal essays and painstaking, often funny reportage. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen's writing - the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistence of loneliness, in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease and a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author.

How to be Alone Reviews

Praise for THE CORRECTIONS * 'Compelling. A pleasure from beginning to end. Franzen, in one leap, has put himself into the league of Updike & Roth. That's why there is so much excitement about it.' DAVID SEXTON, EVENING STANDARD * 'A novel of outstanding sympathy, wit, moral intelligence and pathos, a family saga told with stylistic brio and psychological and political insight. No British novelist is currently writing at this pitch.' JEREMY TREGLOWEN, FINANCIAL TIMES

About Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen is the author of THE TWENTY- SEVENTH, STRONG MOTION and THE CORRECTIONS. His fiction and nonfiction appear frequently in the NEW YORKER and HARPER'S, and he was named one of the best American novelists under forty by GRANTA and the NEW YORKER. He lives in New York City.

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GOR001361388

ISBN 13

9780007147250

ISBN 10

0007147252

Title

How to be Alone by Jonathan Franzen

Author

Jonathan Franzen

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Year published

2002-10-07

Number of pages

288

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