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Original Title:	Freedom
ISBN:	0374158460 (ISBN13: 9780374158460)
Edition Language:	English URL http://us.macmillan.com/freedom/JonathanFranzen
Characters:	Walter Berglund, Patty Berglund, Joey Berglund, Jessica Berglund, Richard Katz
Literary Awards:	Warwick Prize for Writing Nominee for Longlist (2013), Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Fiction (2010), Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (2011), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2010), Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2010) John Gardner Book Award for Fiction (2011), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Favorite Book and for Fiction (2010)

Freedom

Jonathan Franzen

Hardcover | Pages: 562 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 146335 Users | 13579 Reviews

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Title	:	Freedom
Author	:	Jonathan Franzen
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 562 pages
Published	:	August 31st 2010 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (first published August 2010)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Novels. Literary Fiction

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Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter—environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man—she was doing her small part to build a better world.

But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz—outré rocker and Walter's college best friend and rival—still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become "a very different kind of neighbor," an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes?

In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom's characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
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Here's the thing about this book: I was really expecting to enjoy it. I say that for two reasons. The first is The Corrections. Not the book itself, which is still quietly residing on my shelf, waiting for its day in the sun Nay, I speak of the buzz. You see, I know people. And a lot of those people read things. And some of those things were their own copies of The Corrections. And the buzz was, as far as I could tell, that the people that I know liked The Corrections. In fact, their only

A friend of mine loaned me this book via Nook's "Lend Me" option which is both gay and retarded. I didn't realize at the time (neither of us did) that the book is only on loan for 14 days and can only be loaned once. So what happened was, I didn't finish. I had about 150 pages left when I got a very rude alert telling me, essentially, to have a good day. Anyway, the ending that I did not read and have no idea about may have compelled me to give this one three stars, but as I have no desire to

Freedom is Terrible, by Katie G. (Abridged for your convenience in list form) Before you think I'm mean, please note that "freedom is terrible" is kind of the point of Franzen's book: Freedom doesn't get you what you want. Uninhibited, it brings a whole slew of problems along with it and, assuming you're not a slave or living in North Korea, the fact that your life is miserable is not due to a lack of freedom. Ironically, you can also substitute the book Freedom for the word freedom above, and

Okay, so earlier this summer I was waiting to see The National play Prospect Park ("Of course you were, Jessica...." -- but bear with me, that's my point), and I sent a text message to the guy who'd given me the tickets, thanking him again and observing that "White People don't LIKE seeing The National play Prospect Park; White People LOVE seeing The National play Prospect Park." This was a reference, of course, to the oft-quoted blog that holds a very high place on the seemingly endless list it

It seems ironically bold yet appropriate for a contemporary novelist to explore relevant American social issues through the artistic lens of undiluted realism. Within the context of a dying book industry, one desperately trying to convince consumers that fiction is still an appealing, worthwhile commodity to invest their time and money in, its often better to play it safe and tug on heartstrings and connect, than to fuss around with experimentation in the interest of moving things forward. And

*Update 9/23 - Jonathan Franzen was in town doing a reading & signing last night, and after listening to him talk, Im officially backing off of theory #1 below. He does not seem like a douche bag, at all. In fact, despite all the Oprah hoopla (Which he described as a fiasco, not because of anything that he or Oprah did, but because the whole thing got blown out of proportion.) and the backlash after the early raves for Freedom, Franzen came across as remarkably down-to-earth and funny. He

A fulsome and satisfying read. He is old-fashioned in the way he makes the reader feel like an ally of the narrator, or author himself sometimes, from an omniscient perspective, and then slipping in a more modern way into the thoughts, perceptions, and feelings of the characters. Beyond morality tales of the likes of Dickens, he has that modern balance of humor and pathos like in novels of Bellow and Updike. Tragicomedies that dont really go over the top like Tom Wolfe does or drift into meta