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How to Be Alone: Essays - Couverture souple

Franzen, Jonathan

 
9780312422165: How to Be Alone: Essays
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0312422164 ISBN 13 : 9780312422165
Editeur : Picador USA, 2003

Synopsis

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

While the essays in this collection range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each one wrestles with the essential themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civil life and private dignity; and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Reprinted here for the first time is Franzen's controversial l996 investigation of the fate of the American novel in what became known as "the Harper's essay," as well as his award-winning narrative of his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease, and a rueful account of his brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jonathan Franzen is the author of five novels, including The Corrections, Freedom, and Crossroads, and five works of nonfiction, including 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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Éditeur
Picador USA
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0312422164
ISBN 13 
9780312422165
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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