What If We Stopped Pretending

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Franzen’s work includes four novels ( The Twenty-Seventh City , Strong Motion , The Corrections , Freedom ), two collections of essays ( Farther Away , How To Be Alone ), a memoir ( The Discomfort Zone ), and, most recently, The Kraus Project . He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California. Klappentext The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. Zusammenfassung The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn’t have to mean the world is ending.

Bericht

Praise for The End of the End of the Earth:
'... by refusing to hope for the impossible, Franzen, improbably, manages to produce a volume that feels, if not hopeful, then at least not hopeless. There's nothing he can do - there's probably nothing any of us can do - to avert or even alleviate the coming catastrophe. But for now, he's here and he's alive, and over the course of these essays he offers us a series of partial, tentative answers to the question he poses himself at the beginning: " How do we find meaning in our actions when the world seems to be coming to an end?" Guardian
'Can be read, in part, as a welcome alternative to the current, dominant American political tone of one-note belligerence' Observer
'Franzen shows himself to be the kind of unacademic critic who recognises and does not disapprove of the Common Reader's natural tendency to feel for the characters the author has brought into being' Scotsman

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jonathan Franzen, Franzen Jonathan
• Verlag: Fourth Estate
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780008434045
• ISBN: 978-0-00-843404-5
• Seiten: 70
• Abmessung: 116 mm x 184 mm x 10 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Ökologie; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Gesellschaft; Essays, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Commentary & Opinion, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Literary essays, Environmentalist thought and ideology