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Jonathan Franzen has been called many things. 576pp, FOURTH ESTATE, £20, EBOOK £12.99. Freedom by Jonathan Franzen For its first 26 pages, the book seems uncomplicatedly to be what it maybe, finally, is: a pacy, clever, big-hearted …

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207 Issue no. Purity by Jonathan Franzen. Jonathan Franzen 1959– Photo by Shelby Graham, courtesy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Despite focussing on fairly unpleasant events and despite being populated by largely unsympathetic characters, The Corrections is a consistently enjoyable read. His three big novels, each in the five-hundred page range, are solid entertainments, brimming with good stories, usually well-presented, often with gripping characters.

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He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and Harper's. The complete review's Review: . In 2010, his picture appeared on the cover of Time magazine next to the words: “Great American Novelist” and Sam Tanenhaus of The New York Times hailed his novel Freedom as “a masterpiece of American fiction”.

His second novel, Strong Motion (1992), was a thriller-cum-love-story set in the student slums of Boston. Franzen shores up his Zeitgeist-heavy narrative with the indispensable masonry of a carefully crafted plot, exuberant yet plausible satire and, most of all, closely observed character … Franzen narrates The Corrections with a subdued, assured and compassionate touch. Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections is a welcome chunk of Americana. Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Franzen's first novel, The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), was a reimagination of his hometown, St. Louis, through the eyes of conspirators and terrorists from southern Asia. 195 Winter 2010 Jonathan Franzen won the National Book Award for fiction for The Corrections in 2001, and is the author of two other critically acclaimed novels, The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion. Review A professional critic’s assessment of a service, product, performance, or artistic or literary work. Jonathan Franzen was born in 1959, in Western Springs, Illinois, and raised in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis.