Farther Away
- Author Jonathan Franzen
- Narrator Jonathan Franzen, Scott Shepherd
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 7 June 2012
- Run Time 8 hours and 43 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Autobiography: general, Autobiography: writers, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Literary companions, book reviews and guides, Literary essays, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Social and cultural history, Topics in philosophy.
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What to expect
The new book of essays from Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom.
Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Freedom’ was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen’s non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of his vivid, moral intelligence, confirming his status not only as a great American novelist but also as a master noticer, social critic, and self-investigator.
In Farther Away, which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, the writer returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace, or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen’s implicit promise to conceal nothing from the reader. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day. ‘Farther Away’ is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.
Critics Review
Praise for ‘Freedom’
n‘Deeper, funnier, sadder and truer than a work of fiction has any right to be’ Independent on Sunday
n'Head and shoulders above any other book this year: moving, funny and unexpectedly beautiful. I missed it when it was over' Sam Mendes, Observer, Books of the Year
n'A cat's cradle of family life, and if the measure of a good book is its afterburn, ‘Freedom’ is a great book' Kirsty Wark Observer, Books of the Year
n'I loved ‘Freedom’. His acute observations of emotional faultlines, his dialogue and above all his wry humour are delightful' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year
n'Franzen pulls off the extraordinary feat of making the lives of his characters more real to you than your own' David Hare, Guardian, Books of the Year
n'No question about it: ‘Freedom’ swept everything before it in intricately observed, humane, unprejudiced armfuls. There was no novel to touch it in 2010' Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
n'By the end of ‘Freedom’ you may feel you understand its protagonists better than you know anyone in the world around you' Nicholas Hytner, Evening Standard, Books of the Year
n'The novel of the year. Its portrait of a marriage, luminously and wittily drawn against a backdrop of modern America, is as good as literature gets' Sarah Sands, New Statesman, Books of the Year
n| Author | Jonathan Franzen |
|---|---|
| Narrator | Jonathan Franzen, Scott Shepherd |
| Duration | 8 hours and 43 minutes |
| Release Date | |
| ISBN | 9780007466344 |
| Format | Audiobook |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Genre | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: writers, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Literary companions, book reviews and guides, Literary essays, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, Social and cultural history, Topics in philosophy |
| Availability | AU, GB, IE |
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