· How to Be Alone. Get A Copy. Kindle Store $ Amazon. Stores ▾. Libraries. Paperback, pages. Published October 1st by Picador (first published October Friend Reviews. Reader QA. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. /5. "How to Be Alone is Jonathan Franzen straight up, no mixer, no chaser. It’s tough to swallow. Nearly pages shorter than The Corrections, it’s in many respects a more arduous reading experience () There’s something creepy about the "personal" tone to many of the essays that make up How to Be Alone. It feels false and affected; at times Franzen (or his persona) appears so conflicted that it’s Author: Jonathan Franzen. · How to be Alone by Jonathan Franzen Fourth Estate £, pp The essays in this collection act as what Hollywood scriptwriters love to refer to as a 'back story'.Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.
Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 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. Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections. Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial investigation of the fate of the American novel. How to Be Alone is a book collecting fourteen essays by American writer Jonathan Franzen. Essays. Most of the essays previously appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Details, and Graywolf Forum. In the introductory essay, "A Word About This Book," Franzen notes that the "underlying investigation in all these essays" is "the.
How to Be Alone may refer to: in literature: How to Be Alone (book), a book by Jonathan Franzen. How to Be Alone, a book by Sara Maitland. How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't, a book by Lane Moore. "How to be alone", a poem by Donika Kelly. in other media. How to Be Alone collects much of Jonathan Franzen's non-fiction from the past decade. The centerpiece, in a way, remains his Harper's piece, Perchance to Dream. In that essay Franzen famously ponders the role of the novelist (and specifically: his role as a novelist) in contemporary American society. Preview — How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen. How to Be Alone Quotes Showing of “Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity.
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