Farther Away

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-04-25 Pages: 336 Language: English Publisher: Harpercollins The new book of articles and opinion from Jonathan Franzen. author of Freedom and The Corrections.Jonathan Franzens Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010. an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now. a new collection of Franzens non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of his vivid. moral intelligence. confirming his status not only as a great American novelist but also as a master noticer . social critic. and self-investigator.In Farther Away. which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years. the writer 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 ...