Jonathan Franzen

Patty ja Walter Berglund ovat vanhan St. Paulin idyllisen kaupunginosan edelläkävijöitä: vanhan kunnostajia, kierrättäjiä, tunnollisia ja lapsilleen omistautuneita vanhempia. Patty on kotiäiti, sosiaalisen kanssakäymisen mestari, joka pitää huolta sekä perheestä, naapurustosta että ystävyyssuhteista. Walter on ympäristökysymyksiin erikoistunut juristi, intohimoinen työmatkapyöräilijä ja täydellinen perheenisä. Mutta jotain on tapahtumassa. Miksi Berglundien teini-ikäinen poika muuttaa kotoaan naapuriin, perheeseen jonka kanssa hänen vanhempiensa välit ovat kokonaan tulehtuneet? Miksi Walter on siirtynyt töihin isoon energiayhtiöön? Miksi särmikäs rocktähti Richard Katz, Walterin opiskelukaveri, idoli ja kilpailija, onkin taas mukana kuvassa? Ja ennen kaikkea: mitä on tapahtunut Pattylle? Miksi valoisa ja aurinkoinen Patty on vaivaannuttavan tuohtunut ja katkera? Jonathan Franzenin Vapaus kuvaa 2000-luvun rakkautta ja avioliittoa satuttavasti ja todesti. Ja yhtaikaa traagisesti ja koomisesti kirjailija tutkii vapauden houkutuksia ja taakkaa: teini-iän huimaavaa himoa, keski-ikäisten kompromisseja, uuden vuosituhannen liberalismia.

Whether we live in cities, in the suburbs, or in the country, birds are ubituitous features of daily life, so much so that we often take them for granted. But even the casual observer is aware that birds don't fill our skies in the number they once did. That awareness has spawned conservation action that has led to notable successes, including the recovery of some of the nation's most emblematic species, such as the Bald Eagle, Brown Pelican, Whooping Crane, and Peregrine Falcon. Despite this, a third of all American bird species are in trouble - in many cases, they're in imminent danger of extinction. The most authoritative account ever published of the threats these species face, "The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation" will be the definitive book on the subject. The Guide presents for the first time anywhere a classification system and threat analysis for bird habitats in the United States, and the most thorough and scientifically credible assessment of threats to birds published to date, as well as a new list of birds of conservation concern. Filled with beautiful color illustrations and original range maps, the Guide is a timely, important, and inspiring reference for birders and anyone else interested in conserving North America's avian fauna. But this book is far more than another shout of crisis. The Guide also lays out a concrete and achievable plan of long-term action to safeguard our country's rich bird life. Ultimately, it is an argument for hope. Whether you spend your early weekend mornings crouched in silence with binoculars in hand, hoping to check another species off your list, or you've never given much thought to bird conservation, you'll appreciate the visual power and intellectual scope of these pages.

Jonathan Franzen er utropt av Granta til en av Amerikas beste forfattere under førti. Med Korrigeringer har han vunnet The National Book Award, og boken ble årets boksuksess i USA, med hele 900 000 solgte bøker i USA kun i utgivelsesåret. Korrigeringer ble utropt til en av de siste tiårenes mest betydningsfulle romaner av et samstemt kritikerkorps. Han har tidligere utgitt The Twenty-Seventh City og Strong Motion, og i 2010 romanen Frihet. Enid Lambert begynner å planlegge julen i mars. Hun maser på de tre voksne barna om å komme hjem til julefeiring i St. Jude. Hun vil ha en god, gammeldags familiejul. Det hun glemmer, er at familien hater å være sammen og umiddelbart går hverandre på nervene. Som pressmiddel bruker hun Alfred. Han er syk av Parkinsons, og blir stadig mer innesluttet og deprimert. Men Gary, Chip og Denise har sine egne miserable liv å leve. De vil ikke hjem til Enids krampekos og Alfreds stadig mer fraværende og forvirrete skikkelse. Jonathan Franzen beskriver nådeløst, rørende, humoristisk og med mye varme den amerikanske familien og det sprikende gapet mellom moderne og tradisjonelle forventninger til livet.

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen's tale of growing up, squirming in his own ber-sensitive skin, from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," into an adult with strong inconvenient passions. Whether he's writing about the explosive dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship in the 1970s, the effects of Kafka's fiction on his protracted quest to lose his virginity, or the web of connections between bird watching, his all-consuming marriage, and the problem of global warming, Franzen is always feelingly engaged with the world we live in now. The Discomfort Zone is a wise, funny, and gorgeously written self-portrait by one of America's finest writers.

A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of ‘The Corrections’. Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of ‘Freedom’ and the highly acclaimed ‘The Corrections’, arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. ‘The Discomfort Zone’ is his intimate memoir of his growth from a ‘small and fundamentally ridiculous person,’ through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions. It's also a portrait of a middle-class family weathering the turbulence of the 1970s, and a vivid personal insight into the decades in which America took an angry turn away from its mid-century ideals. He tells of the effects of Kafka's fiction on Franzen's protracted quest to lose his virginity, the elaborate pranks that he and his friends orchestrated from the roof of his high school, his self-inflicted travails in selling his mother's house after her death, the web of connections between his all-consuming marriage, the problem of global warming, and the life lessons to be learned in watching birds. Sparkling, daring and arrestingly honest, ‘The Discomfort Zone’ is warmed by the same combination of comic scrutiny and unqualified affection that characterize Franzen's fiction. It narrates the formation of a unique mind and heart in the crucible of an everyday American family.

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER â?? A genuine masterpiece, the first great American novel of the twenty-first centuryâ?? Elle â?? Funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligentâ?? Guardian

Eine Serie von Erdbeben erschüttert Boston. Als die Großmutter von Louis Holland dabei ums Leben kommt, entbrennt ein erbitterter Familienstreit um ihr Vermögen. Seine Freundin, die junge Seismologin Ren?e, bemüht sich unterdessen, die Ursachen des rätselhaften Bebens zu ergründen. Doch je näher sie ihrem Ziel kommt, desto heftiger gerät das moralische Fundament der Familie Holland ins Wanken.

St. Louis, die einst blühende Stadt im Mittelwesten Amerikas, bekommt einen neuen Polizeichef. Es ist S. Jammu, eine Frau aus Indien: zart, jung, sympathisch. Doch kaum hat sie ihr Amt angetreten, greift Gewalt um sich. Eine Bombe explodiert. Auch Martin Probst, Erbauer des städtischen Wahrzeichens "The Arch", und seine Frau Barbara - das Vorzeige-Ehepaar, von vielen um sein Glück beneidet - erleben Gefahr, süße Verlockungen und Angst.

Teksasista kotikaupunkiinsa Bostoniin palannut Louis Holland tekee vaatimattomia töitä pienellä radioasemalla. Kun maanjäristys iskee rannikolla hiukan kaupungista pohjoiseen, Louis ja hänen perheensä sysätään suurten muutosten eteen. Louisin äiti perii järistyksessä kuolleelta sukulaiseltaan 22 miljoonan dollarin arvoisen osuuden suuresta kemianalan yrityksestä. Eräällä yhtiön laitoksella sattuu kuitenkin samoihin aikoihin ikävä vuoto, ja uudet järistykset uhkaavat romahduttaa jättimäisen osakesalkun. Louis tutustuu Renée Seitchekiin, seismologiin, joka kiinnostuu aluetta koettelevasta poikkeuksellisesta ilmiöstä. Moitittuaan abortinvastaisen uskonnollisen liikkeen johtajaa televisiossa Renée joutuu piinaavan painostuskampanjan kohteeksi. Sama ryhmä tulee tutuksi myös Louisille, kun pahoin velkaantuneen radioaseman tulevaisuudesta päätetään. Alkuvoimien paineessa elämän säikeet kiristyvät äärimmilleen. Jonathan Franzenin toinen romaani luo inhimillistä ajankuvaa ilmiöistä, joiden vaikutukset väreilevät amerikkalaisessa yhteiskunnassa edelleen.

Nach fast fünfzig Ehejahren hat Enid Lambert nur ein Ziel: ihre Familie zu einem letzten Weihnachtsfest um sich zu scharen. Alles könnte so schön sein, gemütlich, harmonisch. Doch Parkinson hat ihren Mann Alfred immer fester im Griff, und die drei erwachsenen Kinder durchleben eigene tragikomischen Malaisen. Gary steckt in einer Ehekrise. Chip versucht sich als Autor. Und Denise ist zwar eine Meisterköchin, hat aber in der Liebe kein Glück.

'The Harper's Essay' is reprinted in this volume alongside personal essays and painstaking, often funny reportage. Although his subjects range widely, each piece wrestles with the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern America.

The author of The Corrections reprints his 1996, "The Harper's Essay," offering additional writings that consider a central theme of the erosion of civic life and private dignity and the increasing persistence of loneliness in postmodern America. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen, author of the prize winning and internationally bestselling, â?? The Correctionsâ??.

The critically acclaimed second novel from the author of ââ?¬Ë? The Correctionsââ?¬â?¢.

Efter næsten halvtreds år som husmor har Enid Lambert lyst til at slå sig lidt løs. Desværre har hendes mand, Alfred, fået parkinsons, og hendes voksne børn - Gary, Chip og Denise - lever ikke helt op til forventningerne, men Enid ønsker sig brændende noget at se frem til, og da et efterårskrydstogt med Alfred skuffer fælt, sætter hun alt ind på at samle hele familien til en sidste jul i St. Jude. Korrektioner er en international bestseller med mere end 90.000 solgte eksemplarer i England og tæt på en million i USA. Det er en storslået roman om den moderne familie, om gamle dyder og nye tider.

Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. Its title , like Catch-22 and Fahrenheit 451 , has become a part of America's cultural vocabulary. Tom Rath doesn't want anything extraordinary out of life: just a decent home, enough money to support his family, and a career that won't crush his spirit. After returning from World War II, he takes a PR job at a television network. It is inane, dehumanizing work. But when a series of personal crises force him to reexamine his priorities , and take responsibility for his past , he is finally moved to carve out an identity for himself. This is Sloan Wilson's searing indictment of a society that had just begun to lose touch with its citizens. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is a classic of American literature and the basis of the award-winning film starring Gregory Peck. "A consequential novel." , Saturday Review

Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.

In this family drama, the author brings an old-time America of industrialism and civic duty, of Cub Scouts, Christmas cookies and sexual inhibitions, into brilliant collision with the modern absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting, and do-it-yourself mental healthcare.