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Freedom is a 2010 novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. It was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux . Freedom received general acclaim from book critics, was ranked one of the best books of 2010 by several publications, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and called by some critics the " Great American Novel ". [ 3 ]
Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award , was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize , and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award .
Ruth Franklin, in a review of Freedom for The New Republic, found the essay to be unfocused and ultimately inconclusive as to what the goal of the Social Novel, or the novel in general should be. Her review found Franzen's novels as well as his essays to depict a great cultural urgency, but neither find ways of confronting it. [6]
His new novel, 'Crossroads,' is extraordinary, immersive, even fun. But it makes you wonder what Franzen might accomplish if more were at stake
“Snowpiercer” producer Tomorrow Studios will partner with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Prods. to adapt the timely Jonathan Franzen novel “Freedom” into a TV series, Variety has learned.
Appearances on C-SPAN; Will the Tea Get Cold? (March 8, 2012 New York Review of Books issue); Interview with Sam Tanenhaus from Oxford American; Sam Tanenhaus's review of "Freedom" by Jonathan Franzen in The New York Times Book Review
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