Freedom Freedom

Freedom

A Novel

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Publisher Description

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter—environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man—she was doing her small part to build a better world.

But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz—outré rocker and Walter's college best friend and rival—still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become "a very different kind of neighbor," an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes?

In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's 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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2010
August 31
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
576
Pages
PUBLISHER
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
4
MB

Customer Reviews

Roderick's Lola ,

Glad I didn't listen to the bad reviews

The two iBooks reviews I was able to read, (especially "steaming pile of garbage"), were so bad, I'm glad I ignored them because this was a thoroughly enjoyable book. I read "the Corrections" and "How to be Alone", I liked both books, but this is my favorite.

Stevew7653 ,

Wow!

This is a great and important book to read. A true marvel.

Kire Snewo ,

Book of the times

Meaningful and long guttural journey of life raw and realistic even though fictionalized. It’s a good book to say the least and simply put. Do yourself a favor and read the book. If you don’t see some part of your life intertwined in the narrative then are you really living in the real moment?

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