The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen

The End of the End of the Earth

Jonathan Franzen

240 pages first pub 2018 (view editions)

nonfiction essays challenging reflective slow-paced
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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.

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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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3.36
based on 286 reviews

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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26% of readers chose slow
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