How to Be Alone: Essays
by Franzen, Jonathan
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0374173273
- ISBN 13
- 9780374173272
- Seller
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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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- Bookseller
- The Dusty Bookcase (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000089
- Title
- How to Be Alone: Essays
- Author
- Franzen, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 288 p. Audience: General/trade.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374173273
- ISBN 13
- 9780374173272
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Award Winners; Essays; Family; Literary Collections; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Society & culture: general; USA; writing; nonfiction; short story; memoir; autobiography; cultural; philosophy; criticism; biography
- Size
- Octavo
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