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240 pages • first pub 2018 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374147938
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition Pub Date: 13 November 2018
The ideal reader relishes measured, self-questioning essays that challenge comfortable assumptions, accept personal and global imperfection, and find hope through close observation of the ordinary and the endangered.
Description
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run strai...
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Moods
reflective: 84%
informative: 76%
challenging: 42%
sad: 34%
emotional: 30%
inspiring: 30%
adventurous: 23%
dark: 23%
funny: 15%
hopeful: 7%
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Animal death, Animal cruelty
240 pages • first pub 2018 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780374147938
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edition Pub Date: 13 November 2018
The ideal reader relishes measured, self-questioning essays that challenge comfortable assumptions, accept personal and global imperfection, and find hope through close observation of the ordinary and the endangered.
Description
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run strai...
Community Reviews
Moods
reflective: 84%
informative: 76%
challenging: 42%
sad: 34%
emotional: 30%
inspiring: 30%
adventurous: 23%
dark: 23%
funny: 15%
hopeful: 7%
Pace
Content Warnings
Submitted by users as part of their reviews
Graphic
Animal death, Animal cruelty