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Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen is the American novelist behind The Corrections (National Book Award 2001), Freedom (2010), Purity (2015), and Crossroads (2021). His essays on technology, environment, and literary criticism run alongside the fiction.
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Years active
2001-2021
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Crossroads
by Jonathan Franzen
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen 2021 review. The Hildebrandt family across the first months of 1971 in suburban Chicago. Franzen's structural return to form and first book of the Key trilogy.
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 2001 review. A Midwestern family gathers for one last Christmas as the patriarch slips into Parkinson's-related dementia. National Book Award 2001 and the canonical American family novel of its decade.
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Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen 2021 review. The Hildebrandt family across the first months of 1971 in suburban Chicago. Franzen's structural return to form and first book of the Key trilogy.
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 2001 review. A Midwestern family gathers for one last Christmas as the patriarch slips into Parkinson's-related dementia. National Book Award 2001 and the canonical American family novel of its decade.