Jonathan Franzen
Cockeyed anecdotes roam merrily through a satiric tale set in an East Germany that’s too larky to be oppressive.
Read MoreMy biggest gripe is with a central tenet of Jonathan Franzen’s fiction: communication between generations is impossible.
Read MoreJonathan Franzen’s new novel is the talk of the town, but does it have anything to say? Freedom: A Novel, by Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 576 pages, $28. Reviewed by Tommy Wallach In two days, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux will publish Freedom, the new novel by Jonathan Franzen whose last book, The Corrections,…
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