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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
24.99 NZD
Category: General 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
34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
This is a grandly entertaining novel for a new century- a comic,tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes.Stretching from the Midwest at mid-century to the Wall Street and EasternEurope of today,this book brings and old fashioned world of civic vritue and sexual inhibitions ...Show more
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
24.99 NZD
25.99 (3% off)
Category: General Fiction | 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
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. This is his memoir of his growth from a 'small and fundamentally ridiculous person,' through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions.
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen
24.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigour to the themes - both human and literary - th ...Show more
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen
35.00 NZD
Category: Essays
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigour to the themes – both human and literary – th ...Show more
The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzen
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening. Karl Kraus: satirist. Controversialist. Forgotten voice of the early twentieth century. Jonathan Franzen: bestseller. Contrarian. One of the greatest novelists working today. Recalling his stude ...Show more
The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzen
34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening. A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehu ...Show more
The Twenty-seventh City by Jonathan Franzen
24.99 NZD
26.99 (7% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen, author of the prize winning and internationally bestselling, The Corrections. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jamm ...Show more
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
14.99 NZD
Category: Environment
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop fa ...Show more