How To Be Alone
by FRANZEN, JONATHAN
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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
- Author
- FRANZEN, JONATHAN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate 2002
- Keywords
- essays reportage articles current events pop culture alienation cunsumerism
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