by Jonathan Franzen · PICADOR · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780312422165
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«How to Be Alone» is Jonathan Franzen's collection of essays, published by Picador in paperback (320 pages, in English).
They range from the sex-advice industry to the workings of a maximum-security prison, with a common thread: the deterioration of public life and the personal sphere, and the loneliness running through American society. It includes the 1996 essay on the American novel, the piece on his father's Alzheimer's, and the experience with Oprah Winfrey.
This edition includes the essay «Mr. Difficult»; most of the essays were previously published in Details, Graywolf Forum, Harper's, and The New Yorker.
General readers interested in the essay, cultural criticism, and American literature.
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.
