How to be Alone
- ISBN-10
- 0007153589
- ISBN-13
- 9780007153589
- Series
- How to Be Alone
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 306
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- Author
- Jonathan Franzen
Description
'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.
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