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Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: A Key To All Mythologies 1 | Reading Level: very good
Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads – the first instalment of the trilogy A Key to All Mythologies – is the stunning foundation of a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family navigate the political and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years A Daily M ...Show more
Discomfort Zone - A personal history by Jonathan Franzen
$27.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. 'The Discomfort Zone' is his intimate memoir of his growth from a 'small and fundamentally ridiculous person' through an adolescence ...Show more
Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen
$23.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The new book of articles and opinion from Jonathan Franzen, author of 'Freedom' and 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen's non-fiction ...Show more
Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The new book of essays from Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen's non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of his vi ...Show more
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 ...Show more
How To Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
$26.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: good-very good
Passionate, independent-minded nonfiction from the international bestselling author of 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the literary sensation of 2010, whilst 'The Corrections' was the best-loved and most written-about novel the previous decade. 'How to be Alone', is a collection of t ...Show more
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA National Book Award-winning AuthorPip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that with $130,000 in student debt she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother is hazardous. She hasn't a clue who h ...Show more
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
$53.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FREEDOM and THE CORRECTIONS Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with he ...Show more
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FREEDOM and THE CORRECTIONS Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with he ...Show more
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century--a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkin ...Show more
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
$25.99 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous | Reading Level: fine
The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children - are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is slowly losing his mind to Parkinson's disease. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathe ...Show more