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Freedom, by bestselling author Jonathan Franzen, is a masterly novel of contemporary love and marriage, a brilliant charting of the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, and the heavy weight of empire.Patty and Walter Berglund were the pioneers of old St. Paul - the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, and the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. But now, in the new millennium, they have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter, once an environmental lawyer, taken a job working with Big Coal? Most startling of all, why has Patty, the perfect neighbour, turned into the local Fury? Patty and Walter Berglund are indelible characters, and their mistakes and joys, as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, have become touchstones of contemporary American reality."Jonathan Franzen's galvanic new novel, Freedom, showcases his impressive literary toolkit—every essential storytelling skill, plus plenty of bells and whistles—and his ability to throw open a big, Updikean picture window on Am

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Author

Jonathan Franzen

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374158460

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.73 / 5 (120,677 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14