Freedom
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‘Extraordinary… it is first troubling, then addictive – and then, with mounting satisfaction, convinces you this is simply on a different plane from other contemporary fiction’ Guardian
‘Deeper, funnier, sadder and truer than a work of fiction has any right to be’ Independent on Sunday
'Moving, funny and unexpectedly beautiful. I missed it when it was over' Sam Mendes, Observer
'Franzen pulls off the extraordinary feat of making the lives of his characters more real to you than your own' David Hare, Guardian
'By the end of Freedom you may feel you understand its protagonists better than you know anyone in the world around you' Nicholas Hytner, Evening Standard, Books of the Year
'The novel of the year. Its portrait of a marriage, luminously and wittily drawn against a backdrop of modern America, is as good as literature gets' Sarah Sands, New Statesman
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`Deeper, funnier, sadder and truer than a work of fiction has any right to be' Independent on Sunday`Both a page-turner and a work of art ... an almost perfectly written novel' Evening StandardThis is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz.
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`Deeper, funnier, sadder and truer than a work of fiction has any right to be' Independent on Sunday`Both a page-turner and a work of art ... an almost perfectly written novel' Evening StandardThis is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use and abuse our freedom; about the beginning and ending of love; teenage lust; the unexpectedness of adult life; why we compete with our friends; how we betray those closest to us; and why things almost never work out as they `should'. It is a story about the human heart, and what it leads us to do to ourselves and each other.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Fourth Estate Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780007269761
- Utgivelsesår
- 2011
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Winner of Galaxy National Book Awards: International Author of the Year 2010.
Om forfatteren
Jonathan Franzen is the author of four other novels, including The Corrections, Freedom and Purity, and five works of nonfiction and translation, including Farther Away and The Kraus Project. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Kunste, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Anmeldelser
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‘Extraordinary… it is first troubling, then addictive – and then, with mounting satisfaction, convinces you this is simply on a different plane from other contemporary fiction’ Guardian
‘Deeper, funnier, sadder and truer than a work of fiction has any right to be’ Independent on Sunday
'Moving, funny and unexpectedly beautiful. I missed it when it was over' Sam Mendes, Observer
'Franzen pulls off the extraordinary feat of making the lives of his characters more real to you than your own' David Hare, Guardian
'By the end of Freedom you may feel you understand its protagonists better than you know anyone in the world around you' Nicholas Hytner, Evening Standard, Books of the Year
'The novel of the year. Its portrait of a marriage, luminously and wittily drawn against a backdrop of modern America, is as good as literature gets' Sarah Sands, New Statesman
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