Crossroads

R$ 92,90

Sinopse

‘His best novel yet … A Middlemarch-like triumph’ Telegraph‘A pleasure bomb of a novel’ Vogue‘A true modern master’ IndependentIt’s 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh graders. His sister Becky, the once straight-laced high school social queen, has veered into counterculture, while at college, Clem is wrestling with a decision that might tear his family apart. As their parents – Russ, a suburban pastor, and Marion, his restless wife – tug against the bonds of a joyless marriage, Crossroads finds a family, and a nation, struggling to do the right thing.‘Funny, moving, crackling with life, it has what all great fiction should have’ Financial Times‘Intoxicating – a luxuriant domestic drama’ GuardianTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 • AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR • A LIT HUB BOOK OF THE YEARJonathan Franzen's book 'Crossroads' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 04-10-2021.

Participantes

Autor: Jonathan Franzen

Autor

JONATHAN FRANZEN

Jonathan Franzen nasceu em Western Springs, Illinois, em 1959. É autor dos romances The twenty-seventh city e Strong motion. Colabora com as revistas The New Yorker e Harper's. Foi eleito pela revista literária Granta um dos vinte melhores jovens romancistas americanos. Polêmico, recusou-se a ir ao talk show de Oprah Winfrey, um dos programas de TV de maior audiência dos Estados Unidos, para divulgar o romance As correções.