How to Be Alone: Essays
by Jonathan Franzen
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374173273
- ISBN 13
- 9780374173272
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Synopsis
How to Be Alone is a 2002 book collecting fourteen essays by Jonathan Franzen. Most of the essays previously appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Details, and Graywolf Forum. In the introductory essay, "A Word About This Book", Franzen notes that the "underlying investigation in all these essays" is "the problem of preserving individuality and complexity in a noisy and distracting mass culture: the question of how to be alone.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DD0012817
- Title
- How to Be Alone: Essays
- Author
- Jonathan Franzen
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374173273
- ISBN 13
- 9780374173272
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2002
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