How to Be Alone
by Franzen, Jonathan
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- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0007153589
- ISBN 13
- 9780007153589
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About This Item
Harpercollins Pub Ltd, 2004. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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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- Title
- How to Be Alone
- Author
- Franzen, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0007153589
- ISBN 13
- 9780007153589
- Publisher
- Harpercollins Pub Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Us
- Date Published
- 2004
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