by Jonathan Franzen · Fourth Estate · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007423323
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«Freedom» is the contemporary fiction novel by Jonathan Franzen, published by Fourth Estate in paperback (570 pages, in English).
The novel follows Patty and Walter Berglund, a couple from Saint Paul (Minnesota), and Richard Katz, a musician and family friend. Franzen addresses the use and abuse of freedom, love, youthful desire, competition among friends, and the betrayals of adult life in contemporary United States.
Originally published in 2010, this edition came out in September 2011. Winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the John Gardner Book Award in 2011.
A suitable read for book clubs and for those seeking American literary fiction about family and contemporary society.
Jonathan Earl Franzen 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. His novel Freedom (2010) garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of Time magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist". Franzen's latest novel Crossroads was published in 2021, and is the first in a projected trilogy.
