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 Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen is the author of The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections and How to be Alone. His fiction and nonfiction appear frequently in the New Yorker and Harper’s, and he was named one of the best writers under 40 by the New Yorker. He lives in New York City.
 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 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 realised 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.
Praise for Freedom
“Like his previous bestseller, The Corrections, it has the potential to become one of the most powerful narratives of its age” wrote The Weekly Review.
'...if you have yet to pick up this exploration of an American family's implosion, you are missing out on one of the most enchanting and hard-hitting novels in recent history" Madison
“Franzen’s prose is evocative, ironic yet tender, beautifully judged but wholly accessible. It repays careful and attentive reading” wrote Warrnambool Standard
“...his latest offering, a witty-yet-poignant family drama, lives up to the hype” wrote Instyle magazine
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