How to be Alone

Leidenschaftliche, eigenwillige Essays des ebenso sprachtalentierten wie erfolgreichen amerikanischen Autors Jonathan Franzen.

As a collection, these essays record what Franzen calls ''a movement away from an angry and frightened isolation toward an acceptance - even a celebration - of being a reader and a writer.'' At the same time they show the wry distrust of the claims of technology and psychology, the love-hate relationship with consumerism, and the subversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of the sharpest, toughest-minded, and most entertaining social critics at work today.

Autorentext

Jonathan Franzen is the author of THE TWENTY- SEVENTH, STRONG MOTION and THE CORRECTIONS. His fiction and nonfiction appear frequently in the NEW YORKER and HARPER'S, and he was named one of the best American novelists under forty by GRANTA and the NEW YORKER. He lives in New York City.

Klappentext

A collection of essays and reportage by the author of the bestselling novel, "The Corrections", which explore the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the "hidden persistence of loneliness in post-modern, imperial America".

Zusammenfassung
Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of 'The Corrections'.