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Anleitung zum Einsamsein - Jonathan Franzen
Anleitung zum Einsamsein
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9783499233722 (349923372X)
Publisher: Rowohlt
Pages no: 333
Edition language: Deutsch
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Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story
Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story rated it
3.0 How to Be Alone
At this point, this collection of essays is a little, well, historical. I really found the examination of how culture and media and technology and literature terribly interesting -- some of those thoughts are still floating around in cyberspace today. But mostly I just enjoyed these essays for the...
Hellen
Hellen rated it
The book started very promising with My father's brain which I thought was great and got me excitedly adding more Franzen stuff to my Goodreads pile.After that... meh. I should probably attempt to write my review as flawless as Franzen (well, I'm not going to succeed in that) just to weigh up to som...
Infinite Joe
Infinite Joe rated it
3.0 How to Be Alone: Essays
Aside from essays involving Alzheimer's disease, cigarettes, and the fall of the Chicago Post Office, the bulk of the other essays centered on reading and/or writing (especially literary fiction), and about his own, personal, inner conflicts, both of those coming into play together at times. For ex...
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud rated it
3.0
Rating: 3* of fiveThe Book Description: Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel. Th...
audreyhawkins
audreyhawkins rated it
Franzen is tetchy and depressed and generally pessimistic about the world, but not in a way that's always interesting to read.
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