How to be Alone by Jonathan Franzen

How to be Alone by Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Frantzen's "The Harper's Essay" is reprinted in "How To Be Alone", alongside the personal essays and painstaking, often funny reportage. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen's writing - the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistence of loneliness, in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease and a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author.

Praise for THE CORRECTIONS * 'CompellingA pleasure from beginning to end. Franzen, in one leap, has put himself into the league of Updike & Roth. That's why there is so much excitement about it.' DAVID SEXTON, EVENING STANDARD * 'A novel of outstanding sympathy, wit, moral intelligence and pathos, a family saga told with stylistic brio and psychological and political insight. No British novelist is currently writing at this pitch.' JEREMY TREGLOWEN, FINANCIAL TIMES

Jonathan Franzen is the author of THE TWENTY- SEVENTH, STRONG MOTION and THE CORRECTIONS. His fiction and nonfiction appear frequently in the NEW YORKER and HARPER'S, and he was named one of the best American novelists under forty by GRANTA and the NEW YORKER. He lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780007147250
ISBN 10	0007147252
Title	How to be Alone
Author	Jonathan Franzen
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2002-10-07
Number of pages	288
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