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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...

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A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening.A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic ...

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The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The CorrectionsYoung Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oa...

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The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections. Includes an interview with the author.Young Pip Tyler doesn?t know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she?s saddled with $130,000 in student debt, th...

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A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with ren...

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A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with re...

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It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless - unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion,...

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The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesnt have to mean the world is ending. If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can k...

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The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can't prevent it. 'If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastr...

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The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can?t prevent it. ?If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastr...

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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER?A genuine masterpiece, the first great American novel of the twenty-first century? Elle?Funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent? GuardianA brilliantly perceptive and moving novel that announced Jonat...

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'A kind of miracle ... Not only made me laugh (again and again) but brought tears to my eyes' Jonathan Franzen'One of the most brilliant satirical novels about life in East Berlin' New York TimesThomas Brussig's classic German satire, translated i...

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Whether we live in cities, in the suburbs, or in the country, birds are ubiquitous features of daily life, so much so that we often take them for granted. But even the casual observer is aware that birds don't fill our skies in the number they onc...

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The incredible fourth novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Martin Beck heading a major manhunt in pursuit of a mass-murderer. With a new introduc...

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This book delivers the intimate memoir of Franzens growth from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," through an excruciating and strangely happy adolescence, and into his adult life with embarrassing and unexpected passions.

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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 the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Ru...

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A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen's tale of growing up, squirming in his own uber-sensitive skin, from a "e;small and fundamentally ridiculous person,"e; into an adult with strong inconvenien...

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The National Book Award-winning author of Freedom presents a "e;multifaceted and revealing collection"e; of essays (The Economist).In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen r...

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Notable Book"e;So funny, so sage and above all so incandescently intelligent"e; (The Chicago Tribune), the New York Times bestseller Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extrem...

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The award-winning author of Freedom examines topics like the future of the planet, public discourse, and himself in this provocative essay collection.The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like "e;a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone e...

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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 a...

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THE END OF THE END OF THE EARTH gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of a unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most import...

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Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside. But after Sophie is bitten on t...

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The award-winning and best-selling Jonathan Franzen picks the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing his "elegance, acumen, and daring as an essayist" (New York Times) to the task.

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The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century -- a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortu...

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For the 150th anniversary of Edith Wharton's birth: her three greatest novels, in a couture-inspired deluxe edition featuring a new introduction by Jonathan FranzenBorn into a distinguished New York family, Edith Wharton chronicled the lives of th...

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Acclaimed literary novelist Franzen gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years. The results document the progress of a mature mind wrestling with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day.

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25th Anniversary Edition Picador Modern Classics Published in 1988, Jonathan Franzen's The Twenty-Seventh City is the debut novel of a writer who would come to define our times. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a n...

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A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic-a personal and intellectual awakening

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A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections . Franzen's great loves are literatureand birds, and this essay collection is a passionate argument for both.

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