A review by guiltyfeat
Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen

4.0

This was a coronavirus lockdown special. I’d bought this book a couple of years ago and I’ve read Franzen’s other non-fiction works, but I don’t know when I would have cracked this if it were not for a situational lack of new choices coming in. Still I’m glad I read it. He’s so good here and there’s loads of stuff here about his ornithological bent. There’s also a ton of stuff about his decades-long friendship (rivalry?) with David Foster Wallace and his feelings following his friend’s suicide. It’s all exquisitely expressed and the little book reviews in between are equally impressive. Fab.