How to Be Alone

As a collection, these essays record what Franzen calls ''a movement away from an angry and frightened isolation toward an acceptance - even a celebration - of being a reader and a writer.'' At the same time they show the wry distrust of the claims of technology and psychology, the love-hate relationship with consumerism, and the subversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of the sharpest, toughest-minded, and most entertaining social critics at work today.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Franzen, Franzen Jonathan
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9780007153589
• ISBN: 978-0-00-715358-9
• No. of pages: 306
• Weight: 215 g
• Series: Harper Collins Paperbacks; Fourth Estate; Harper Collins Paperbacks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, Literary essays, Society and culture: general, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Style;Theory;Author