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How to Be Alone : Essays by Franzen, Jonathan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in How to be Alone, along with the personal essays and the dead-on reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of The Corrections. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father's stuggle with Alzheimer's disease (which has already been reprinted around the world) and a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author. As a collection, these essays record what Franzen calls "a movement away from an angry and frightened isolation toward an acceptance - even a celebration -

Who reads How to Be Alone : Essays?

Author

Franzen, Jonathan

Publisher

Macmillan; Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374707644

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.6 / 5 (130 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13