- Essays, Essays (single author), Reportage literature, American essays
Collection of some of Franzen's essays, including the one known as "the Harper's essay". Some are edited or tweaked from their original printings. A mixture of topics but well-written and enjoyable; Franzen is as thoughtful as ever.
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Character-led, spare, classical in form and contemporary.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Jonathan Franzen
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 306
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial, 4th Estate, Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Picador
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- Chinese, English, German
- ISBN
- 9780374173272
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“HERE'S A MEMORY.”
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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