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Die Vorzeigeeltern Patty und Walter Berglund geben ihren Nachbarn in St. Paul plötzlich Rätsel auf: Ihr Sohn zieht zur proletenhaften Familie von nebenan. Der Umweltschützer Walter lässt sich auf einen zweifelhaften Pakt mit der Kohleindustrie ein und Ehefrau Patty verabschiedet sich von ihrem Hausfrauendasein. Und was hat Richard Katz, ehemaliger bester Freund und alternder Rockmusiker, mit all dem zu tun? Jonathan Franzen zeichnet in erneut ein scharfsinniges Gesellschaftsportrait. ist ein bedeutsames Buch über unser Leben in einer immer unübersichtlicher werdenden Welt.

The 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 and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter - environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, family man - she was doing her small part to build a better world. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz - outre rocker and Walter's old college friend and rival - still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to poor Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become a very different kind of neighbour, an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes? In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of too much liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's intensely realized characters, as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.

"Dall''autore di ""Le correzioni"", una raccolta di saggi che hanno come filo conduttore l''erosione dei valori civili, il persistere della solitudine nell''America postmoderna e la fiducia nella letteratura come mezzo per sfuggire alla tragicita del destino individuale. I testi spaziano tra diversi generi: si va dal saggio letterario al racconto autobiografico, dal pezzo di costume al giornalismo d''indagine. I testi sono stati pubblicati in diverse riviste americane fra il 1994 e il 2001. "

A great American writers confrontation with a great European critic a personal and intellectual awakening.Karl Kraus: satirist. Controversialist. Forgotten voice of the early twentieth century.Jonathan Franzen: bestseller. Contrarian. One of the greatest novelists working today.Recalling his student days, the celebrated author of The Corrections and Freedom recounts his discovery of Kraus and presents his own translations and annotations of the philosophers most famous essays.A pioneer of self-publishing, Kraus brilliantly attacked the mass media and the dehumanizing machinery of technology and capitalism. A notoriously difficult writer, Kraus has met his match in Franzen: a popular novelist unafraid to voice unpopular opinions. In the extensive footnotes Franzen explains why Kraus is relevant today while also revealing his own intellectual and personal preoccupations.Painstakingly wrought, strikingly original, The Kraus Project is a feast of thought and literature.

Jonathan Franzens new novel Purity due out next autumn.Purity has been described as a multigenerational American epic that spans decades and continents. The story centers on a young woman named Purity Tyler who doesnt know who her father is and sets out to uncover his identity. The narrative stretches from contemporary America to South America to East Germany before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and hinges on the mystery of Pips family history and her relationship with a charismatic hacker and whistleblower.

Jonathan Franzens new novel Purity due out next autumn.Purity has been described as a multigenerational American epic that spans decades and continents. The story centers on a young woman named Purity Tyler who doesnt know who her father is and sets out to uncover his identity. The narrative stretches from contemporary America to South America to East Germany before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and hinges on the mystery of Pips family history and her relationship with a charismatic hacker and whistleblower.

Esta nueva obra de un maestro americano del realismo tiene placeres novelescos en abundancia y personajes creíbles. Purity es una gran historia de idealismo de juventud y extrema fidelidad. Publicado en Septiembre de 2015, llega ahora en formato bolsillo.

La familia Lambert es una familia como las otras: detrás de su aparente buena naturaleza a veces se esconden los deseos inconfesables ... Desde lágrimas en reconciliaciones, Enid, Alfred, y sus tres hijos tratan de dar sentido a sus contradicciones. Y si no nacieron para corregir los errores de sus padres? Una saga con una feroz humor, cuyo poder barre todo a su paso.

The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn’t have to mean the world is ending.

A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of ''The Corrections''. Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. ''The Discomfort Zone'' is his intimate memoir of his growth from a ''small and fundamentally ridiculous person'' through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions. It''s also a portrait of a middle class family weathering the turbulence of the 1970s, and a vivid personal history of the decades in which America has taken an angry turn away from its mid-century ideals. The stories told here draw on elements as varied as the effects of Kafka''s fiction on Franzen''s protracted quest to lose his virginity, the elaborate pranks that he and his friends orchestrated from the roof of his high school, his self-inflicted travails in selling his mother''s house after her death, and the web of connections between his all-consuming marriage, the problem of global warming, and the life lessons to be learned in watching birds.These chapters of a Midwestern youth and a New York adulthood are warmed by the same combination of comic scrutiny and unqualified affection that characterize Franzen''s fiction, but here the main character is the author himself. Sparkling, daring, arrestingly honest, Franzen narrates the formation of a unique mind and heart in the crucible of an everyday American family.

Jonathan Franzens autobiografische Geschichte seiner Jugend im Mittleren Westen und seines Erwachsenwerdens in New York. Ein glänzend erzähltes und zwingend glaubwürdiges Spiegelbild der USA seit den Siebzigern und ein liebevoll-komisches Porträt einer typischen US-Mittelschichtfamilie.Brilliant award-winning personal history from the author of "The Corrections".

Nous sommes en 1971, à la veille de Noël, la météo annonce une importante perturbation. Russ Hildebrandt vit avec sa femme, Marion, et leurs enfants dans une banlieue cossue de Chicago. Pour ce paste