Freedom

Freedom

Fourteen years ago, Jonathan Franzen declared in Harper's magazine that sweeping, socially engaged novels by serious writers had lost their appeal. He then went on to write a sweeping, socially engaged novel that sold more than 1.5 million copies and won the National Book Award.

Nearly a decade after his 2001 novel, The Corrections, Franzen is attempting to prove himself wrong a second time.

Freedom is a multi-generational epic that follows an idealistic young couple who settle in the rough neighbourhood of St Paul, Minnesota. A very powerful insight into disillusion in marriage, and a story about the challenges, burdens and opportunities of personal freedom, the novel is full of the more generous ironies that endeared The Corrections to readers and literary reviewers alike. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's intensely realised 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.

In 2001 Jonathan Franzen took the literary world by storm with The Corrections.

Winner of the National Book Award, New York Times No. 1 bestseller and with over 40,000 copies sold in Australia alone, The Corrections established itself as a truly great American novel, one that is now almost universally seen as the novel of the decade.

"Impossible to dislike, an unpretentious page-turner" - Zadie Smith.
"It is a major accomplishment" - Michael Cunningham.
"Marvelous - Everything we want in a novel - except, when it's rocking along, for it never to be over" -New York Times Book Review

Jonathan Franzen is the author of three novels - including The Corrections - a collection of non-fiction and a memoir. He lives in New York City.

Freedom
Harper Collins Publishers
Author: Jonathan Franzen
ISBN: 9780007318520
Price: $32.99