How to be Alone (eBook, ePUB)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | HarperCollins Publishers (Franzen, Jonathan) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of ´The Corrections´.Jonathan Franzen´s ´Freedom´ was the literary sensation of 2010, whilst ´The Corrections´ was the best-loved and most written-about novel the previous decade. ´How to be Alone´, is a collection of the personal essays and painstaking, often humorous reportage that have earned Franzen a wide and loyal readership, including what has come to be known as ´The Harper´s Essay´, Franzen´s controversial 1996 look at the fate of the novel. From the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, from his father´s struggle with Alzheimer´s disease to a rueful account of Franzen´s brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author, each piece wrestles with Franzen´s familiar themes: the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistence of loneliness, in postmodern imperial America.These collected essays record what Franzen calls ´a movement away from an angry and frightened isolation toward an acceptance - even a celebration - of being a reader and a writer.´ They voice a wry distrust of the claims of technology and psychology, the love-hate relationship with consumerism, and the subversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of the sharpest, toughest-minded, and most entertaining social critics at work today.
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