Farther away: essays

R$ 132,90

Sinopse

In this incisive collection of speeches and essays, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recalling his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his 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. A remarkable and revelatory work from one of our greatest living novelists, Farther Away traces the progress of a unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day.

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.