by Jonathan Franzen · MACMILLAN USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780312576462
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«Freedom» is the literary fiction novel by Jonathan Franzen, in paperback (608 pages, in English).
Patty and Walter Berglund seem the perfect family in their St. Paul, Minnesota neighborhood. Franzen narrates their marriage and surroundings over the years: passion, disillusionment, parenthood, friendship, environmental activism, and the renunciations of adulthood, to speak of freedom and its contradictions in contemporary United States.
Originally published in 2010; this paperback edition is from 2011. Winner of the John Gardner Fiction Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction who enjoy portraits of family life and American society.
Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His novel Freedom (2010) garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of Time magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist". Franzen's latest novel Crossroads was published in 2021, and is the first in a projected trilogy.
