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	Writers House Maja Nikolic
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Literary essays

THE END OF THE END OF THE EARTH

Jonathan Franzen

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Purity, 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 vigor to the themes—both human and literary—that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird crisis, these pieces contain all the wit and disabused realism that we’ve come to expect from Franzen.

Taken together, these essays trace the progress of a unique and mature mind wrestling with itself, with literature, and with some of the most important issues of our day, made more pressing by the current political milieu. THE END OF THE END OF THE EARTH is remarkable, provocative, and necessary.

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Book Published 2018-11-13 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Comments

“This book is a Silent Spring for today, but instead of challenging readers to change the world, it pushes them to change themselves.” – Library Journal (starred review)

“Franzen, unlike many, listens. It’s what makes him one of the best living writers of fictional dialogue, and it’s what makes his arguments productively provocative.” – Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post

“Whether observing the eerie beauty of Antarctica (“far from having melted,” he reports) or dispensing “Ten Rules for the Novelist,” Franzen makes for an entertaining, sometimes prickly, but always quotable companion.”

“Here’s where Franzen is at his best . . . when he causes us to call ourselves into question, and look more deeply at what
we’re doing with our lives.”