Freedom

Présentation de l'éditeur The new novel from the author of universally acclaimed, THE CORRECTIONS. Patty and Walter Berglund were the perfect couple. She was an enviably wonderful mother; he was an environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, and family man. But now the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? Why has Patty, the community's bright star, become 'a very different kind of neighbour.' FREEDOM is an epic of contemporary love and marriage, and an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time. Quatrième de couverture An international bestseller and the novel of the year, 'Freedom' is an epic of contemporary love and marriage. This is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use and abuse our freedom; about the beginning and ending of love; teenage lust; the unexpectedness of adult life; why we compete with our friends; how we betray those closest to us; and why things almost never work out as they 'should'. It is a story about the human heart, and what it leads us to do to ourselves and each other. Biographie de l'auteur Jonathan Franzen is the author of three novels, The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), and The Corrections (2001); a collection of nonfiction, How to Be Alone (2002); and The Discomfort Zone (2006), a memoir.