His 2001 novel the corrections, a sprawling, satirical family drama, 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. Nov 10, 2001 novelist jonathan franzen poses with his national book award after the 2001 national book foundations awards cermony in new york. Jonathan earl franzen born august 17, 1959 is an american novelist and essayist. His fourth novel, freedom, was published in the fall of 2010. The corrections, the twentyseventh city and strong motion. He has published four novels the twentyseventh city 1988, strong motion 1992, the corrections 2002. Louis is an angry member of the nowhere generation renee is a passionate and embittered seismologist seven years his senior. Jonathan franzens work includes four novels the twentyseventh city, strong motion, the corrections, freedom, two collections of essays farther away, how to be free jonathan franzen freedom pdf download software at updatestar nine years after winning the national book award, franzens the corrections consistently appears. Jonathan franzen is the author of the twentyseventh city, strong motion, and the essay collection how to be alone. A novel by jonathan franzen 2001, paperback, revised at the best online prices at ebay. Franzen follows his widely acclaimed debut, the twentyseventh city 1988, with a potent saga of tentative love and environmental catastrophe that quakes and ultimately selfdestructs, although it fragments into magnificent pieces in the process.
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