- Essays, Essay, Amerikanisches Englisch, NEW LIST 20120630
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Character-led, spare, contemporary and classical in form.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Jonathan Franzen
- First published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374153571
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Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) 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 has contributed to *The New Yorker* magazine since 1994. His 1996 Harper's essay *Perchance to Dream* bemoaned the state of contemporary literature. Oprah Winfrey's book club selection in 2001 of
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