THE END OF THE END OF THE EARTH

In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen return s with renewed vigour to the themes both human and literary that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relati onship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird crisis, th ese pieces contain all the wit and disabused realism that weve come to expect from Franzen. Taken together, these essays trace the progress of ...[Read more]