Freedom

by Jonathan Franzen | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0374532575 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingchawosowing of Heusenstamm, Hessen Germany on 1/27/2013
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Journal Entry 1 by wingchawosowing from Heusenstamm, Hessen Germany on Sunday, January 27, 2013
I saw it on somebody's wishlist ans so I try to get it ...

From the back:

"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."

Journal Entry 2 by wingchawosowing at Heusenstamm, Hessen Germany on Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Released 11 yrs ago (1/29/2013 UTC) at Heusenstamm, Hessen Germany

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A family story fitts to valentine's day, I think ...

Happy valentine and a good reading!

Journal Entry 3 by Anne-Elliott at Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom on Monday, February 11, 2013
Thanks very much for this big,fat book chawoso! I'm not familiar with this author, but it looks like my sort of book, & I look forward to reading it! Thanks also for the Valentine goodies!

Journal Entry 4 by Anne-Elliott at Southampton, Hampshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Well this book is a hefty tome, but worth persevering & taking one's time! Funny, sad & very relevant to the current climate.

Off to annimanni as part of the wish list tag game.

Journal Entry 5 by Annimanni at Espoo, Uusimaa / Nyland Finland on Friday, August 23, 2013
It is a hefty tome indeed! Thanks ever so much for sending it all the way up north, Anne-Elliott!

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