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How to Be Alone

by Jonathan Franzen

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From Jonathan Franzen, the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, here are fourteen provocative and entertaining answers to the question of how to be alone in a noisy and distracting mass culture. Although Franzen''s subjects range fr... Read more
From Jonathan Franzen, the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, here are fourteen provocative and entertaining answers to the question of how to be alone in a noisy and distracting mass culture. Although Franzen''s subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with essential themes of his writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity, the dubious claims of technology and psychology, the tragic shape of the individual life.Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father''s struggle with Alzheimer''s disease and a rueful account of Franzen''s brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author.

This is a book that will further cement Franzen''s reputation as one of the sharpest, toughest, and liveliest writers at work today. Less

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File size8 X 5.31 X 0.75 in
Print pages324
Publisher4th Estate
Publication date January 1, 2002
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780007152575
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Jonathan Franzen
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Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections, a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen...

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