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Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
$34.99 AUD
Category: New 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
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: A\Key to All Mythologies Ser.
A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEARSet in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads 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 yearsA WHITE ...Show more
Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays / Short Stories
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
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
$39.99 AUD
Category: New 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
$32.99 AUD
Category: New 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
Purity by Jonathan Franzen
$24.99 AUD
Category: General 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
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
$24.99 AUD
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
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction 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 Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their ...Show more
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
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
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literature/Quotations | 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
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
$19.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment
The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can't prevent it. '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 failures, apocalyptic fires, im ...Show more