Freedom, by the New York Times 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.
Is Jonathan Franzen writing a new book?
After 20 years at the top, Franzen is celebrated and scorned in equal measure. As he returns with a new book, Crossroads, John Self examines his contentious appeal. Sometimes it seems like there are two people called Jonathan Franzen: the successful, acclaimed novelist, and his evil twin.28 Sept 2021
Where is Jonathan Franzen now?
Santa Cruz
Is Jonathan Franzen a good writer?
The one where Franzen is a striding colossus of contemporary fiction, "a literary genius for our time" (The Guardian), "the novelist for our times" (Time), author of books such as Freedom, "a Great American Novel for our time" (Daily Telegraph) and The Corrections, "a moving epic for our time" (New York Magazine)? ( 28 Sept 2021
Is Jonathan Franzen married?
He also studied on a Fulbright Scholarship at Freie Universität Berlin in Berlin in 1981-82; he speaks fluent German. Franzen was married in 1982 and moved with his wife to Somerville, Massachusetts to pursue a career as a novelist.