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Jonathan Franzen's new book is about identity, the Internet, sexual politics, and love-among countless other things. It's deeply troubling, richly moving, and hilarious-featuring an unforgettable cast of inimitable Franzenian characters who grapple mightily and rewardingly with the great issues of our time and culture.

Jonathan Franzen's huge-canvased new book is about identity, the Internet, sexual politics, and love-among countless other things. It's deeply troubling, richly moving, and hilarious-featuring an unforgettable cast of inimitable Franzenian characters who grapple mightily and rewardingly with the great issues of our time and culture.

Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is PURITY, that she's saddled with $130, 000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother - her only family - is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever have a normal life.

PURITY is a grand story of youthful idealism, extreme fidelity, and murder. The New York Times bestselling author of The Corrections and Freedom has imagined a world of vividly original characters and he follows their intertwining paths through landscapes as contemporary as the omnipresent Internet and as ancient as the war between the sexes.

Framed by matriarch Enid Lambert's attempts to gather her three grown children back home for Christmas, The Corrections examines their lives: Enid's husband Alfred, sinking into dementia, her sons banker Gary and writer Chip (now in Lithuania) and daughter Denise, a chef, busily re-evaluating her sexual identity.

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Patty und Walter Berglund - Vorzeigeeltern und Umweltpioniere, fast schon ideale Nachbarn in ihrer selbst renovierten viktorianischen Villa in St. Paul - geben plötzlich Rätsel auf: Ihr halbwüchsiger Sohn zieht zur proletenhaften republikanischen Familie nebenan, Walter lässt sich zum Schutz einer einzigen Vogelart auf einen zwielichtigen Pakt mit der Kohleindustrie ein, und Patty, Exsportlerin und Eins-a-Hausfrau, entpuppt sich als wahrlich s...

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In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day.

#1 National Bestseller Winner of the John Gardner Fiction Award A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist In his first novel since "The Corrections, " Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. "Freedom" comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sp...

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.

A collection of essays and reportage by the author of the bestselling novel, "The Corrections", which explore the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the "hidden persistence of loneliness in post-modern, imperial America".

Acclaimed literary novelist Franzen gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years. The results document the progress of a mature mind wrestling with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day.

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El retrato minucioso de una familia del Medio Oeste americano a lo largo de varias décadas adquiere en la prosa maestra de Jonathan Franzen un carácter universal. Ahondando en la vida íntima de unos personajes tan cercanos como identificables, la novela es una incisiva radiografía de nuestro tiempo que ha suscitado la admiración unánime de la crítica y ha sido escogida Libro del Año por los lectores de la revista Qué Leer . Patty y Walter Berg...

Subtitled, "A Personal History". Jonathan Franzen, named one of the best American novelists under forty by "Granta" and the "New Yorker", tells his own personal story of growing up in 1970s America. His betselling "The Corrections" will be reissued with a new cover to coincide with the paperback publication of his memoirs. 'Franzen's memoir is cleverly written and often fun to read... He's funny and self deprecating...' "Sunday Telegraph

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A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic. Franzen presents his definitive new translations of Viennese satirist Kraus, alongside his annotations and supplementary notes from 2 Kraus scholars.

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