Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.
It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless--unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who's been selling drugs to seventh graders, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate.
Jonathan Franzen's novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity, and with even greater warmth, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own.
A tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen's gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident.
A tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen's gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident.keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity, and with even greater warmth, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own.
A tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen's gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident.keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity, and with even greater warmth, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own.
A tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen's gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident.Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen's gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident.
Jonathan Franzen (Western Springs, Illinois, 1959) was named one of the best young novelists in the United States by the prestigious magazine Granta in 1996. Until then, he had written the novels Ciudad veintisiete (1988) and Movimiento fuerte (1992), but it was the publication of Las correcciones (Salamandra, 2012) in 2001 that sealed his immense narrativo talent: he won the National Book Award and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Libertad (Salamandra, 2011), a novel that received widespread acclaim from a wide range of critics and experts from a variety of countries, was the final nail in the coffin for him in 2010. In Spain, he was awarded the Premio a la Mejor Novela del Año by the readers of the magazine Qué Leer. Cinco años más después, en otoño de 2015, la publicación dePureza reconmocionó a los lectores de habla inglesa, y lo consagró como uno de los grandes escritores norteamericanos de nuestra epocha In addition, Franzen is the author of five nonfiction works: How to Be Alone (2002), Zona templada (2006), Más afuera (Salamandra, 2012), The Kraus Project (2013), and El end del fin de la Tierra (Salamandra, 2019).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780374181178 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374181179 |
| Title | Crossroads |
| Author | Jonathan Franzen |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Year published | 2021-10-05 |
| Number of pages | 592 |
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