Freedom - Info and Reading Options
A Novel
By Jonathan Franzen
"Freedom" was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2010 - New York, USA, it has 562 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Freedom” Metadata:
- Title: Freedom
- Author: Jonathan Franzen
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 562
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publish Date: 2010
- Publish Location: New York, USA
“Freedom” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Zionism - cerulean warblers - human overpopulation - strip-mining - liberalism - environmentalism - date-rape - suburban life - dysfunctional families - Middle class families - Husband and wife - Environmentalists - nyt:hardcover_fiction=2010-08-29 - New York Times bestseller - Fiction - City and town life - Domestic fiction - Married people - Family life - Domestic relations - University of South Alabama - Ehepaar - Dreierbeziehung - Konflikt - Large type books - New York Times reviewed - Fiction, family life - Saint paul (minn.), fiction - Married people, fiction - Fiction, family life, general - Freund - Fictional Works
- People: ➤ Patty Berglund - Walter Berglund - Richard Katz - Jessica Berglund - Joey Berglund - Connie Monaghan - Eliza - Lalitha - Jonathan - Jenna - Kenny Bartles
- Places: ➤ Minnesota - Barrier Street - Saint Paul - Washington D.C. - Ramsey Hill - University of Minnesota - West Virginia - Jersey City - University of Virginia - Brooklyn - Canterbridge Estates Lake - New York
- Time: 2004
Edition Specifications:
- Format: Hardcover
- Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 1.8 inches
- Pagination: 562p.
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL24363398M - OL15521274W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 548616620
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2010010273
- ISBN-13: 9780312600846
- ISBN-10: 0312600844
- All ISBNs: 0312600844 - 9780312600846
AI-generated Review of “Freedom”:
Snippets and Summary:
The news about Walter Berglund wasn't picked up locally—he and Patty had moved away to Washington two years earlier and meant nothing to St. Paul now—but the urban gentry of Ramsey Hill were not so loyal to their city as not to read the New York Times.
"Freedom" Description:
The Open Library:
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 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, total 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—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 of neighbor," 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 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 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. (jacket)
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