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  • The Twenty-Seventh City

    A Novel

    Series series Picador Modern Classics
    **25th Anniversary EditionPicador Modern ClassicsPublished in 1988, Jonathan Franzen's The Twenty-Seventh City is the debut novel of a writer who would come to define our times.**St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Crossroads

    A Novel

    Jonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.It’s December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless—unless his wife, Marion, who has her own ... Read more

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  • Purity

    A Novel

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Notable Book“So funny, so sage and above all so incandescently intelligent” (The Chicago Tribune), the New York Times bestseller Purity is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder, a daring and penetrating book from “the most intelligent novelist of [his] generation” (The New Republic), ... ... Read more

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  • The Corrections

    A Novel

    Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for FictionNominated for the National Book Critics Circle AwardAn American Library Association Notable BookJonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The End of the End of the Earth

    Essays

    A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them.” For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk-taking ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Crossroads

    A Novel

    Narrated by David Pittu ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - A Key to All Mythologies

    Unabridged

    24 hours 57 min

    "Narrator David Pittu superbly transports the listener into the lives of the Hildebrandts, a family with many secrets." - AudioFile Magazine**This program includes a bonus conversation between the author, Jonathan Franzen, and the narrator, David Pittu.Jonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or free with audiobook trial

  • Freedom

    A Novel

    Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter—environmental ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • How to Be Alone

    Essays

    Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time ... Read more

    $8.89 USD

  • The Kraus Project

    Essays by Karl Kraus

    A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic—a personal and intellectual awakeningA hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and farsighted writers in Europe. In his self-published magazine, Die Fackel, Kraus brilliantly attacked the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumer ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Crossroads Chapter Sampler

    Download the first chapter of Jonathan Franzen's next novel, Crossroads.It’s December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless—unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Freedom

    A Novel

    Narrated by David Ledoux ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 37 min

    "Masterful describes not only Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel but also David Ledoux’s reading of the book . . . Ledoux gives a vibrant performance." —AudioFile MagazineFrom the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about family.Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or free with audiobook trial

  • Strong Motion

    A Novel

    Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything. ... Read more

    $10.79 USD