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How to be alone : essays

The author of The Corrections reprints his 1996, "The Harper's Essay," offering additional writings that consider a central theme of the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the increasing persistence of loneliness in postmodern America.

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  • "How to be alone"@it
  • "How to be alone"@en
  • "How to be alone : essays"@en
  • "How to be alone. Allemand"

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  • "The author of The Corrections reprints his 1996, "The Harper's Essay," offering additional writings that consider a central theme of the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the increasing persistence of loneliness in postmodern America."@en
  • ""Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in How to be Alone, along with the personal essays and the dead-on reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of The Corrections. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father's stuggle with Alzheimer's disease (which has already been reprinted around the world) and a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author. 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 our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2002023642.html."
  • ""Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. This essay is reprinted for the first time in How to be Alone, along with the personal essays and the dead-on reportage that earned Franzen a wide readership before the success of The Corrections. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father's stuggle with Alzheimer's disease (which has already been reprinted around the world) and a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author. 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 our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2002023642.html."@en
  • "The author presents his 1996 work, "The Harper's Essay," offering additional writings that consider a central theme of the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the increasing persistence of loneliness in postmodern American."
  • "From Jonathan Franzen, the National Book Award'winning author of The Corrections, come fourteen provocative and entertaining answers to the question of how to be alone in a noisy and distracting mass culture. Although Franzen's subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with essential themes of his writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity, the dubious claims of technology and psychology, the tragic shape of the individual life. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease and a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author. This is a book that will further cement Franzen's reputation as one of the sharpest, toughest, and liveliest writers at work today."@en
  • "From the National Book Award-winning author of "The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics While the essays in this collection range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each one wrestles with the essential themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civil life and private dignity; and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Reprinted here for the first time is Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel in what became known as "the Harper's essay, " as well as his award-winning narrative of his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease, and a rueful account of his brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author."
  • "From the National Book Award-winning author of "The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics While the essays in this collection range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each one wrestles with the essential themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civil life and private dignity; and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Reprinted here for the first time is Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel in what became known as "the Harper's essay, " as well as his award-winning narrative of his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease, and a rueful account of his brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author."@en
  • "Essais sur les thèmes de prédilection de l'auteur : l'érosion de la vie civique et de la dignité humaine dans l'Amérique "impériale", la médicalisation de la vie affective et ses conséquences, etc. Figurent également deux récits très personnels. La lutte perdue d'avance de son père contre la maladie d'Alzheimer et ce qu'il en coûte à un écrivain américain de critiquer la vedette TV Oprah Winfrey."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Juvenile works"@en
  • "Translations"
  • "Essays"
  • "Short stories.; Historical fiction"

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  • "De kunst van het alleenzijn"
  • "How to be alone : essays"
  • "How to be alone : essays"@en
  • "Hvordan man er alene"@da
  • "Come stare soli : lo scrittore, il lettore e la cultura di massa"@it
  • "Come stare soli : lo scrittore, il lettore e la cultura di massa"
  • "How to be Alone"
  • "Cómo estar solo"@es
  • "Cómo estar solo"
  • "如何獨處"
  • "Ru he du chu"
  • "How to be alone essays"
  • "How to be alone essays"@en
  • "Anleitung zum Einsamsein : Essays"
  • "Anleitung zum Alleinsein Essays"
  • "Selected essays from how to be alone"@en
  • "How to be alone"@en
  • "How to be alone"
  • "Anleitung zum Alleinsein : Essays"
  • "Pourquoi s'en faire?"
  • "Kako biti sam"
  • "Kako biti sam"@sl

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