Farther Away. by Franzen, Jonathan - 2012.

New York:: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.. 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: turquoise binding; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Description: ''In this work which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace or offering a moving and witty take on the ways that technology has changed how people express their love, these pieces deliver on Franzen's implicit promise to conceal nothing.''