How to be alone

How to be alone: essays

by Franzen, Jonathan

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From the National Book Award-winning author of "The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics While the essays in this collection range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each one wrestles with the essential themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civil life and private dignity; and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Reprinted…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :How to be alone : essays / Jonathan Franzen.

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From the National Book Award-winning author of "The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics While the essays in this collection range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each one wrestles with the essential themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civil life and private dignity; and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Reprinted here for the first time is Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel in what became known as "the Harper's essay, " as well as his award-winning narrative of his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease, and a rueful account of his brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2003.
  • Edition:1st Picador ed

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Notes

Rev. and expanded.

The Physical Object

  • Description:306 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0312422164, 9780312422165
  • oclc:ocm53318389
  • LC Classification:PS3556.R352
  • Dewey Decimal:814/.54

Subjects

18.06 Anglo-American literature American essays -- 20th century Essais Essais (Genre littéraire) Essays Nonfiction

Writers

Franzen, Jonathan

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