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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jonathan Franzen, Franzen Jonathan
• Editore: Fourth Estate
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9780007153589
• ISBN: 978-0-00-715358-9
• Pagine: 306
• Peso: 215 g
• Serie: Harper Collins Paperbacks; Fourth Estate; Harper Collins Paperbacks
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Narrativa > Romanzi > Letteratura contemporanea (dal 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