Freedom jonathan franzen review
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Jonathan franzen...
Tough Love: A Review of Jonathan Franzen&#;s Freedom
Jonathan Franzen seems to have always known what kind of writer he wanted to be when he grew up. His underrated first book, The Twenty-Seventh City, published before he was thirty, managed to synthesize the warring impulses of postwar fiction &#; toward black comedy and intimate lyricism, toward domestic realism and busy narrative, toward the personal and the political &#; in a language of aphoristic wit, journalistic specificity, and lapidary precision. The Twenty-Seventh City was a little bit of everything, without seeming like the average of anything.
Notwithstanding his subsequent (and public) hemming and hawing about the social vs.
the domestic, the difficult vs.
Freedom jonathan franzen review
the hospitable, art vs. entertainment, Franzen&#;s ambitions have proven remarkably stable since then. Every seven or eight years, he brings out another dense and dazzling slab of pages &#; another panorama of American life viewed through the prism of the ind