How to Be Alone: Essays
by Franzen, Jonathan
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- ISBN 10
- 0312422164
- ISBN 13
- 9780312422165
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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: Essays
- Author
- Franzen, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Quantity Available
- 780
- ISBN 10
- 0312422164
- ISBN 13
- 9780312422165
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2003-10-01
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