This essay is available in audio for the first time in How to be Alone, along with the personal essays and the dead-on reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of The Corrections.Īlthough 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. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay", Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections.
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