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Jonathan Franzen
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born
August 17, 1959
in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
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Freedom
   3.62 avg rating — 47,505 ratings
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2010
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50 editions
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The Corrections
3.67 avg rating — 46,677 ratings
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published
2001
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74 editions
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How to Be Alone: Essays
3.59 avg rating — 3,774 ratings
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2002
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24 editions
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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
 3.33 avg rating — 2,125 ratings
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2006
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33 editions
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Strong Motion
3.43 avg rating — 1,336 ratings
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published
1992
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15 editions
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The Twenty-Seventh City
3.11 avg rating — 1,274 ratings
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published
1988
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18 editions
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Farther Away: Essays
3.69 avg rating — 135 ratings
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published
2012
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5 editions
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Selected Essays from: How to be Alone
3.58 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Vivre à deux
by Jonathan Franzen, Gérard Dubois , Nadine Bismuth 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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2011
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Das Gehirn meines Vaters
4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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2002
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September 2010,
Jonathan Franzen
"The celebrated scribe of The Corrections talks about his latest portrait of an American family in Freedom and argues that a book doesn't have to be difficult to be great." ...More
"The celebrated scribe of The Corrections talks about his latest portrait of an American family in Freedom and argues that a book doesn't have to be difficult to be great." ...More
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“Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.”
― Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone: Essays
― Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone: Essays
“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen
― Jonathan Franzen
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| The Book Addicts!: Heidi's TBR list 2010 | 5 | 61 | Dec 28, 2009 08:41pm | |
| Readers and Reading: Reading/Planning to read through 2/28/2010 | 250 | 180 | Feb 27, 2010 07:08pm | |
| The Seasonal Read...: 30.5 (PJ Reads' Task - As Suggested By Tanja - Six Degrees of Separation) | 349 | 356 | May 26, 2010 07:44am | |
| Fiction Fair: Has anyone read? | 32 | 35 | Aug 31, 2010 10:21am | |
| Novel Ladies: NYT Bestseller List - September 10th, 2010 | 3 | 9 | Sep 10, 2010 02:49pm | |
| Novel Ladies: NYT Bestseller List - September 17th, 2010 | 3 | 6 | Sep 21, 2010 11:43pm | |
| The History Book ...: VIDEO - AUTHORS WITH THE LAST NAME BEGINNING WITH F | 3 | 22 | Sep 25, 2010 08:23am | |
| Audiobooks: Summer 2010 | 418 | 281 | Sep 28, 2010 07:49am |
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