Items related to Freedom

Franzen, Jonathan Freedom ISBN 13: 9780007269754

Freedom - Hardcover

 
9780007269754: Freedom
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 
The new novel from the author of The Corrections. 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 neighbour who could tell you where to 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, family 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 - outre rocker and Walter's old college friend and rival - still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to poor Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become "a very different kind of neighbour," an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes? In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of too much 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's intensely realized characters, as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:
Amazon Best of the Month, August 2010: "The awful thing about life is this:" says Octave to the Marquis in Renoir's Rules of the Game. "Everyone has his reasons." That could be a motto for novelists as well, few more so than Jonathan Franzen, who seems less concerned with creating merely likeable characters than ones who are fully alive, in all their self-justifying complexity. Freedom is his fourth novel, and, yes, his first in nine years since The Corrections. Happy to say, it's very much a match for that great book, a wrenching, funny, and forgiving portrait of a Midwestern family (from St. Paul this time, rather than the fictional St. Jude). Patty and Walter Berglund find each other early: a pretty jock, focused on the court and a little lost off it, and a stolid budding lawyer, besotted with her and almost burdened by his integrity. They make a family and a life together, and, over time, slowly lose track of each other. Their stories align at times with Big Issues--among them mountaintop removal, war profiteering, and rock'n'roll--and in some ways can't be separated from them, but what you remember most are the characters, whom you grow to love the way families often love each other: not for their charm or goodness, but because they have their reasons, and you know them. --Tom Nissley
About the Author:
Jonathan Franzen is the author of three novels, The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), and The Corrections (2001); a collection of nonfiction, How to Be Alone (2002); and The Discomfort Zone (2006), a memoir.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

  • PublisherFarrar Straus Giroux
  • Publication date2010
  • ISBN 10 0007269757
  • ISBN 13 9780007269754
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages562
  • Rating

Shipping: US$ 12.62
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.

Destination, rates & speeds

Add to Basket

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780312576462: Freedom: A Novel

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780312576462
Publisher: Picador, 2011
Softcover

  • 9780374158460: Freedom: A Novel

    Farrar..., 2010
    Hardcover

  • 9780007269761: Freedom

    Fourth..., 2011
    Softcover

  • 9780312600846: Freedom

    Farrar..., 2010
    Hardcover

  • 9781250000019: freedom

    Picador, 2011
    Softcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Jonathan Franzen
Published by Fourth Estate (2010)
ISBN 10: 0007269757 ISBN 13: 9780007269754
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Revaluation Books
(Exeter, United Kingdom)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 570 pages. 9.37x6.22x1.57 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # zk0007269757

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 50.61
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 12.62
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Franzen, Jonathan
Published by Farrar Straus Giroux (2010)
ISBN 10: 0007269757 ISBN 13: 9780007269754
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GF Books, Inc.
(Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Book is in NEW condition. Seller Inventory # 0007269757-2-1

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 94.92
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Franzen, Jonathan
Published by Farrar Straus Giroux (2010)
ISBN 10: 0007269757 ISBN 13: 9780007269754
New Hardcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Book Deals
(Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published. Seller Inventory # 353-0007269757-new

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 94.93
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Jonathan Franzen
Published by Fourth Estate, London (2010)
ISBN 10: 0007269757 ISBN 13: 9780007269754
New Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity: 1
Seller:
Fiction First
(Congleton, United Kingdom)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. A fine unread 1st impression in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by the Author on the title page. Signed at the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2015. The withdrawn 1st printing. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 007134

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 62.38
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 32.80
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Franzen, Jonathan
Published by Fourth Estate (2010)
ISBN 10: 0007269757 ISBN 13: 9780007269754
New Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity: 1
Seller:
Welcombe Books
(Dorset, DORSE, United Kingdom)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. A mint first printing in a likewise unclipped dust wrapper. This immaculate unread gift condition copy is SIGNED by the author to the title page, NOT to a tipped in page. This copy escaped the withdrawing of all copies due to incorrect text.The Event Flyer and copy of the ticket for the UEA is loose laid in. An outstanding copy. BOXED DESPATCH. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-1485097823608

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 71.48
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 31.42
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Jonathan Franzen
Published by 4th Estate (2010)
ISBN 10: 0007269757 ISBN 13: 9780007269754
New Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity: 1
Seller:
Anderida Books
(LEDBURY, United Kingdom)

Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition with a solitary number 1 on the copyright page. Only a handful of events have been arranged in the UK to promote the book and at most of these events, only the reprinted edition was made available, so signed firsts are very scarce indeed. This first edition has been signed to the title page by Jonathan Franzen. A more desirable collectable than the tip-in page version. A fine hardcover in a fine dustwrapper.**********PACKED IN A BOX WITH PLENTY OF PROTECTION. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-3524323354

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 90.97
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 34.07
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds