The End of the End of the Earth
The End of the End of the Earth A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections--now with a new epilogueThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen…
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The End of the End of the Earth
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections--now with a new epilogueThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like "a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them." For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk-taking essayist. Where the new media tend to confirm one's prejudices, he writes, literature "invites you to ask Now, at a moment when technology has inflamed tribal hatreds and the planet is beset by unnatural calamities, he is back with a new collection of essays that recall us to more humane ways of being in the world.Franzen's great loves are literature and birds, and The End of the End of the Earth is a passionate argument for both.