Jonathan Franzen

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Jonathan Franzen is an American novelist and essayist who is one of the most acclaimed and debated literary figures of his generation. Born in Western Springs, Illinois, in 1959, he studied German at Swarthmore College and has been a prominent public intellectual. The Corrections follows three adult children of a Midwestern couple as... they navigate their dysfunctional family relationships, each struggling with their own crises. The novel won the National Book Award and was a number one New York Times bestseller. Franzen's other novels include Freedom, Purity, and Crossroads. His fiction is characterised by its ambition, its social sweep, and its unflinching dissection of American family life. His audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers ambitious, sweeping American literary fiction that takes on the full complexity of family, society, and the American condition. Read more Show less