How to Be Alone

Book Author

Jonathan Franzen

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Description

**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 l996 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. A Word About This Book My Father’s Brain Imperial Bedroom Why Bother Lost in the Mail Erika Imports Sifting the Ashes A Reader in Exile First City Scavenging Control Units Mr. Difficult Books in Bed Meet Me in St. Louis Inauguration Day, January 2001

Additional information

Book Author

Jonathan Franzen

Format

Ebooks

ISBN-13

9780312422165

Language

English

Publication Date

02-15-2003

Publisher

Picador

About Author

Jonathan Franzen is the author of The Corrections, winner of the 2001 National Book Award for fiction; the novels The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion; and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alon

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