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0231188935 pdf Few writers rankle like Jonathan Franzen. Despite popular acclaim, robust sales, and august literary laurels, Franzens polarizing persona shares the spotlight withand sometimes steals it fromhis tragicomic novels of Midwestern family life. In this reconsideration of Freedom (2010), L. Gibson explores the difficulty of coming to terms with Jonathan Franzen. Freedom Reread considers the authors distinctive narrative technique in light of the contradictions for which he is renowned: widely read curmudgeon, tweeted-about luddite, self-proclaimed partisan of fiction who frequently announces the novels death. Bookended by autofictional forays into the process ofand resistance totaking a definite stance on Franzen, this book places Freedom in conversation with a playful, idiosyncratic array of interlocutors, including Read more