How to be Alone

Leidenschaftliche, eigenwillige Essays des ebenso sprachtalentierten wie erfolgreichen amerikanischen Autors Jonathan Franzen.

As a collection, these essays record what Franzen calls ''a movement away from an angry and frightened isolation toward an acceptance - even a celebration - of being a reader and a writer.'' At the same time they show the wry distrust of the claims of technology and psychology, the love-hate relationship with consumerism, and the subversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of the sharpest, toughest-minded, and most entertaining social critics at work today.

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

A collection of essays and reportage by the author of the bestselling novel, "The Corrections", which explore the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the "hidden persistence of loneliness in post-modern, imperial America".