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Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (2012, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPoint S

ISBN-102757829955

ISBN-139782757829950

eBay Product ID (ePID)240232381

Product Key Features

Book TitleFreedom

LanguageFrench

Publication Year2012

TopicFamily Life, General

GenreFiction

AuthorJonathan Franzen

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight14.1 Oz

Item Length6.9 in

Item Width4.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisPatty 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 whereto 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 lawyer, commuter cyclist, totalfamily man she was doing her small part to build a better world. But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz outr rocker and Walter's college best friend and rival still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty?Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become "a very different kind ofneighbor," an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes? In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us anepic 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 sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom'scharacters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusingworld, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of ourtime.