- 337 pages
- English
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About this book
The National Book Award–winning author of
Freedom presents a "multifaceted and revealing collection" of essays (
The Economist).
In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen's implicit promise to conceal nothing.
On a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there, Franzen doesn't omit mention of his excitement and awe at the pace of China's economic development; the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudice and moral condemnation. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day.
In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen's implicit promise to conceal nothing.
On a trip to China to see first-hand the environmental devastation there, Franzen doesn't omit mention of his excitement and awe at the pace of China's economic development; the trip becomes a journey out of his own prejudice and moral condemnation. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Pain Won’t Kill You (2011)
- Farther Away (2011)
- The Greatest Family Ever Storied (2010)
- Hornets (2010)
- The Ugly Mediterranean (2010)
- The Corn King (2010)
- On Autobiographical Fiction (2009)
- I Just Called to Say I Love You (2008)
- David Foster Wallace (2008)
- The Chinese Puffin (2008)
- On the Laughing Policeman (2008)
- Comma-Then (2008)
- Authentic But Horrible (2007)
- Interview with New York State (2007)
- Love Letters (2005)
- Our Little Planet (2005)
- The End of the Binge (2005)
- What Makes You So Sure You’re Not the Evil One Yourself? (2004)
- Our Relations: A Brief History (2004)
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (2002)
- No End to It (1998)
- Also by Jonathan Franzen
- Copyright