Jonathan Franzen

"After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The...

"A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever have...

From the National Book Award-winning author of "The Corrections, a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics While the essays in this collection range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each one wrestles with the essential themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civil life and private dignity; and the hidden persistence of loneliness...

The author describes growing up in a family of all boys in Webster Groves, Missouri, reflecting on such topics as the dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship, his role as the school prankster, his marriage, and the life lessons he has learned from birds.

K pastoru prihodyat ispovedatsya, oblegchit dushu, rasskazat gore, poprosit soveta. Kazhetsya, chto pastor dolzhen znat otvety na vse voprosy, kotorye muchayut cheloveka neposvyaschennogo. Rass Hildebrandt, prihodskoy svyaschennik, hotel by v eto verit, no v ego zhizni i dushe – haos i smyatenie. Rass kazhetsya sebe blednoy tenyu svoey proshloy zhizni, ego brak treschit po shvam, on beznadezhno vlyublen v svoyu prihozhanku, a ego chetyre rebenka...

Birders: The Central Park Effect reveals the extraordinary array of wild birds who grace Manhattan's celebrated patch of green, and the equally colorful New Yorkers who schedule their lives around the rhythms of migration. Author Jonathan Franzen, an idiosyncratic trombone technician, and a septuagenarian bird-tour leader are among the lively cast of characters in this charming, lyrical documentary that transports the viewer to the dazzling, hidden...

Inspired by a Jonathan Franzen essay, Emptying the Skies exposes the rampant poaching of endangered migratory songbirds in southern Europe and highlights the efforts of those risking their lives to stop this devastating environmental tragedy.

Enid Lambert has her heart set on bringing her family back for one last Christmas at home.

Jeszcze nigdy talent Jonathana Franzena do łączenia głębi i wyrazistości swoich bohaterów z szeroką perspektywą społeczną nie był tak olśniewający jak w Na rozdrożu. Dwudziestego trzeciego grudnia 1971 roku rodzina Hildebrandtów staje na rozdrożu. Ojciec rodziny, Russ, pełniący funkcję młodszego pastora w podmiejskim kościele w Chicago, lada moment wyrwie się z nieszczęśliwego, jego zdaniem, małżeństwa--chyba że pierwsza...