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Freedom

Freedom( )
Author: Franzen, Jonathan
ISBN:978-1-4104-3376-3
Publication Date:Nov 2010
Publisher:Thorndike Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $33.99
Book Description:

A #1 A New York Times Bestseller, An Oprah's Book Club Selection, An Indie Next Pick, A National Book Award-winning Author --Patty 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 neighbor, an enviably perfect mother, and the wife of Walter's dreams. She and Walter -- environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man -- did their part to build a better world. But...
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Book Details
Pages:784
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Family Life / General
Fiction / City Life
Fiction / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.3 x 9.4 x 1.7 Inches
Book Weight:1.65 Pounds
Author Biography
Franzen, Jonathan (Author)
Jonathan Franzen was born in Western Springs, Illinois on August 17, 1959. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1981, and went on to study at the Freie University in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar. He worked in a seismology lab at Harvard University's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences after graduation.

His works include The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), How to Be Alone (2002), and The Discomfort Zone (2006). The Corrections (2001) won a National Book Award and the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Freedom (2010) is an Oprah Book Club selection. He also won a Whiting Writers' Award in 1988 and the American Academy's Berlin Prize in 2000. He is also a frequent contributor to Harper's and The New Yorker. In 2015 his title Purity made The New Yort Times and New Zealand Best Seller List.

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