Crossroads

The latest novel from the international bestselling author of The Corrections

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Franzen's work includes four novels ( The Twenty-Seventh City , Strong Motion , The Corrections , Freedom ), two collections of essays ( Farther Away , How To Be Alone ), a memoir ( The Discomfort Zone ), and, most recently, The Kraus Project . He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California. Klappentext 'His best novel yet ... A Middlemarch-like triumph' Telegraph Vorwort The latest novel from the international bestselling author of The Corrections Zusammenfassung 'His best novel yet A Middlemarch-like triumph' Telegraph

Autorentext

Jonathan Franzen's work includes four novels (The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections, Freedom), two collections of essays (Farther Away, How To Be Alone), a memoir (The Discomfort Zone), and, most recently, The Kraus Project. He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.

Klappentext

'His best novel yet ... A Middlemarch-like triumph' Telegraph'A pleasure bomb of a novel' Vogue'A true modern master' IndependentIt's 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh graders. His sister Becky, the once straight-laced high school social queen, has veered into counterculture, while at college, Clem is wrestling with a decision that might tear his family apart. As their parents - Russ, a suburban pastor, and Marion, his restless wife - tug against the bonds of a joyless marriage, Crossroads finds a family, and a nation, struggling to do the right thing.

'Funny, moving, crackling with life, it has what all great fiction should have' Financial Times

'Intoxicating - a luxuriant domestic drama' Guardian

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Zusammenfassung
âHis best novel yet ⦠A Middlemarch-like triumphâ™ Telegraph