Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you whereto recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, totalfamily man she was doing her small part to build a better world.
But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz outré rocker and Walter's college best friend and rival still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty?Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become "a very different kind ofneighbor," an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes?
In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us anepic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom'scharacters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusingworld, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of ourtime.
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About the Author:
Jonathan Franzen est né en 1959 dans l’Illinois. Il a obtenu le National Book Award pour Les Corrections (Éditions de l’Olivier, 2002). Il est également l’auteur de Pourquoi s’en faire ?(2003) et de La Vingt-septième Ville (2004). Paru aux États-Unis à l’automne 2010, Freedom y a connu un immense succès critique et public (plus d’un million d’exemplaires vendus). Il est en cours de publication dans 36 pays.
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- PublisherPOINTS
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 2757829955
- ISBN 13 9782757829950
- BindingPocket Book
- Number of pages792
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