Jonathan Franzen's work includes four novels (The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections, Freedom), two collections of essays (Farther Away, How To Be Alone), a memoir (The Discomfort Zone), and, most recently, The Kraus Project. He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.
‘Extraordinary… it is first troubling, then addictive – and then, with mounting satisfaction, convinces you this is simply on a different plane from other contemporary fiction’ Guardian ‘Deeper, funnier, sadder and truer than a work of fiction has any right to be’ Independent on Sunday 'Moving, funny and unexpectedly beautiful. I missed it when it was over' Sam Mendes, Observer 'Franzen pulls off the extraordinary feat of making the lives of his characters more real to you than your own' David Hare, Guardian 'By the end of Freedom you may feel you understand its protagonists better than you know anyone in the world around you' Nicholas Hytner, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 'The novel of the year. Its portrait of a marriage, luminously and wittily drawn against a backdrop of modern America, is as good as literature gets' Sarah Sands, New Statesman
'Extraordinary... it is first troubling, then addictive - and then, with mounting satisfaction, convinces you this is simply on a different plane from other contemporary fiction' Guardian
'Deeper, funnier, sadder and truer than a work of fiction has any right to be' Independent on Sunday
'Moving, funny and unexpectedly beautiful. I missed it when it was over' Sam Mendes, Observer
'Franzen pulls off the extraordinary feat of making the lives of his characters more real to you than your own' David Hare, Guardian
'By the end of Freedom you may feel you understand its protagonists better than you know anyone in the world around you' Nicholas Hytner, Evening Standard, Books of the Year
'The novel of the year. Its portrait of a marriage, luminously and wittily drawn against a backdrop of modern America, is as good as literature gets' Sarah Sands, New Statesman
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