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Book Review: 'Crossroads,' by Jonathan Franzen
Franzen's novel is flush with such moments. It's about tests most of us fear we are not going to pass. "It was strange that self-pity wasn't on the list of deadly sins," Russ thinks ...
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Post-publication review, 12/10/21. I've now read 105 books so far this year including some pretty famously (infamously) brilliant ones, Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow, War and Peace, Les Misérables, Middlemarch, etc., but (and it astounds me to say), Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads may still sit in the top 5 books I've read this year so far ...
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Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen. reviewed by Caroline Tew. After the six-year hiatus, to say Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads was highly anticipated is something of an understatement. Some eagerly awaited the nearly six-hundred-page novel, others wondered what Franzen had left to say about middle American families and their struggles, while a final camp lamented how much attention this one ...
Review: 'Crossroads,' by Jonathan Franzen
The Corrections (2001), the book that launched him to celebrity, ... Crossroads is a testament not to the singularity of the '70s but to the decade's continuity with our own. The novel's ...
Jonathan Franzen Takes On the Domestic Ills of the 1970s
For the civically careworn Franzen, "Crossroads" must feel almost like escapist fiction. The Hildebrandts of New Prospect, Ill., just outside Chicago, now join the Lamberts and the Berglunds ...
CROSSROADS
CROSSROADS. by Jonathan Franzen ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 5, 2021. Franzen's intensely absorbing novel is amusing, excruciating, and at times unexpectedly uplifting—in a word, exquisite. This first novel in an ambitious trilogy tracks a suburban Chicago family in a time of personal and societal turmoil. It says a lot that, at almost 600 pages ...
'Crossroads,' by Jonathan Franzen book review
Review by Ron Charles. October 5, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EDT. 44. Thank God for Jonathan Franzen. His new novel, " Crossroads ," is the first of a planned trilogy modestly called "A Key to All ...
Crossroads review: Franzen's opus on humiliation is excellent
Russ Hildebrandt, the patriarch at the center of Jonathan Franzen's excellent new novel Crossroads, has been humiliated. Russ used to be cool. He's a former Mennonite turned associate minister ...
Jonathan Franzen's "Crossroads" Is a Triumph: Novel Review
Jonathan Franzen's sweeping, sumptuous new novel, Crossroads, peers back at this oddball moment, post-Manson Family and pre-Watergate, when Jesus was groovy and Nixon's America teetered beneath the stresses of Vietnam and (closer to home) the ravages of drug use and infidelity. Crossroads is set during Advent—mostly a single day, December ...
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen review
Chicago, Illinois: Crossroads looks at the American cult of extreme individualism through the eyes of Illinois teenagers. Photograph: D Guest Smith/Alamy Observer book of the week Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen, America's Next Top Moralist
by Jonathan Franzen. Buy on Bookshop. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 592 pp., $30.00. Crossroads is a novel about how to be a good person. "She herself was good," Franzen writes in close third ...
Review: 'Crossroads,' by Jonathan Franzen
It is 1971. The cars are boxy, the coats are sheepskin, the lapels are yawning, the potatoes are served in a cream sauce, and the rec rooms are paneled in knotty pine. We are in New Prospect, a ...
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen: Summary and reviews
Book Summary. Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads. It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a ...
'Crossroads': Jonathan Franzen's epic makes the ordinary literary
Just about everybody in Jonathan Franzen 's superb domestic epic "Crossroads" (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 592 pages, ★★★★ out of four) is dealing with a serious spiritual crisis ...
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On the Shelf. Crossroads. By Jonathan Franzen FSG: 592 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.
Crossroads review: Jonathan Franzen's new book will please readers who
Unlike Franzen's previous two novels, 2010's Freedom and 2015's Purity, Crossroads is light on curmudgeonly social commentary. (Readers who prefer his breakout 2001 novel, The Corrections ...
Book Marks reviews of Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
The first installment of a new trilogy from the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections and Freedom.Crossroads is a family saga set in a Chicago suburb in the early 1970s, where each of the dysfunctional Hildebrandts (led by associate pastor/patriarch-in-turmoil, Russ) is experiencing a seismic identity crisis.
The Church of Jonathan Franzen
A rabbi, a preacher, and a drug dealer walk into a Christmas party. This is not the setup to a joke; it is the setup to a pivotal scene in "Crossroads," Jonathan Franzen's new novel.The drug ...
All Book Marks reviews for Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Giving up, for now, in Crossroads, on representing present youth, Franzen has doubled down on representing the white ones' parents and grandparents as the impressionable, inquisitive, and dynamically flawed young men and women that they once had been.In dreams, as a once-famed tale from the Depression had it, begin responsibilities ... To set a novel half a century in the past, as he now ...
'Crossroads' Review: God and Country in Franzen's Swinging '70s
Like all Mr. Franzen's novels, "Crossroads" burrows into the walls behind which a group of people endure the particularly excruciating form of self-flagellation we call family life. The ...
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR A LIT HUB BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'His best novel yet ... A Middlemarch-like triumph' Telegraph Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads is the stunning foundation of a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family ...
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― Thomas Mallon, The New York Times Book Review "Franzen is a master of rendering the broad sweep of humanity through the (extremely human) minutia of a family. In Crossroads, I felt a frustration and fondness for the Hildebrandts so deep it was almost familial. This is, perhaps, [Franzen's] greatest skill as a writer . . .
Mark Porton's review of Crossroads
5/5: I will try and keep this brief (Terry) because no review can justify Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen. It's been a few days and I am still loitering about in 1970s Chicago with the Hildebrandt family. Russ Dad, he's an assistant minister at some sort of modern church. He has 4 kids and is married to Marion. It's a tired marriage. He's a resentful man - and is particularly jealous ...
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
Crossroads. by Jonathan Franzen. Publication Date: October 4, 2022. Genres: Fiction. Paperback: 592 pages. Publisher: Picador. ISBN-10: 1250858704. ISBN-13: 9781250858702. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy.
Crossroads
The action in Crossroads flows and ebbs toward several tour-de-force scenes." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review "Thank God for Jonathan Franzen . . . With its dazzling style and tireless attention to the machinations of a single family, Crossroads is distinctly Franzen-esque, but it represents a marked evolution . . . It's an ...
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Franzen's novel is flush with such moments. It's about tests most of us fear we are not going to pass. "It was strange that self-pity wasn't on the list of deadly sins," Russ thinks ...
Post-publication review, 12/10/21. I've now read 105 books so far this year including some pretty famously (infamously) brilliant ones, Infinite Jest, Gravity's Rainbow, War and Peace, Les Misérables, Middlemarch, etc., but (and it astounds me to say), Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads may still sit in the top 5 books I've read this year so far ...
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen. reviewed by Caroline Tew. After the six-year hiatus, to say Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads was highly anticipated is something of an understatement. Some eagerly awaited the nearly six-hundred-page novel, others wondered what Franzen had left to say about middle American families and their struggles, while a final camp lamented how much attention this one ...
The Corrections (2001), the book that launched him to celebrity, ... Crossroads is a testament not to the singularity of the '70s but to the decade's continuity with our own. The novel's ...
For the civically careworn Franzen, "Crossroads" must feel almost like escapist fiction. The Hildebrandts of New Prospect, Ill., just outside Chicago, now join the Lamberts and the Berglunds ...
CROSSROADS. by Jonathan Franzen ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 5, 2021. Franzen's intensely absorbing novel is amusing, excruciating, and at times unexpectedly uplifting—in a word, exquisite. This first novel in an ambitious trilogy tracks a suburban Chicago family in a time of personal and societal turmoil. It says a lot that, at almost 600 pages ...
Review by Ron Charles. October 5, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EDT. 44. Thank God for Jonathan Franzen. His new novel, " Crossroads ," is the first of a planned trilogy modestly called "A Key to All ...
Russ Hildebrandt, the patriarch at the center of Jonathan Franzen's excellent new novel Crossroads, has been humiliated. Russ used to be cool. He's a former Mennonite turned associate minister ...
Jonathan Franzen's sweeping, sumptuous new novel, Crossroads, peers back at this oddball moment, post-Manson Family and pre-Watergate, when Jesus was groovy and Nixon's America teetered beneath the stresses of Vietnam and (closer to home) the ravages of drug use and infidelity. Crossroads is set during Advent—mostly a single day, December ...
Chicago, Illinois: Crossroads looks at the American cult of extreme individualism through the eyes of Illinois teenagers. Photograph: D Guest Smith/Alamy Observer book of the week Jonathan Franzen
by Jonathan Franzen. Buy on Bookshop. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 592 pp., $30.00. Crossroads is a novel about how to be a good person. "She herself was good," Franzen writes in close third ...
It is 1971. The cars are boxy, the coats are sheepskin, the lapels are yawning, the potatoes are served in a cream sauce, and the rec rooms are paneled in knotty pine. We are in New Prospect, a ...
Book Summary. Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads. It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a ...
Just about everybody in Jonathan Franzen 's superb domestic epic "Crossroads" (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 592 pages, ★★★★ out of four) is dealing with a serious spiritual crisis ...
On the Shelf. Crossroads. By Jonathan Franzen FSG: 592 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.
Unlike Franzen's previous two novels, 2010's Freedom and 2015's Purity, Crossroads is light on curmudgeonly social commentary. (Readers who prefer his breakout 2001 novel, The Corrections ...
The first installment of a new trilogy from the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections and Freedom.Crossroads is a family saga set in a Chicago suburb in the early 1970s, where each of the dysfunctional Hildebrandts (led by associate pastor/patriarch-in-turmoil, Russ) is experiencing a seismic identity crisis.
A rabbi, a preacher, and a drug dealer walk into a Christmas party. This is not the setup to a joke; it is the setup to a pivotal scene in "Crossroads," Jonathan Franzen's new novel.The drug ...
Giving up, for now, in Crossroads, on representing present youth, Franzen has doubled down on representing the white ones' parents and grandparents as the impressionable, inquisitive, and dynamically flawed young men and women that they once had been.In dreams, as a once-famed tale from the Depression had it, begin responsibilities ... To set a novel half a century in the past, as he now ...
Like all Mr. Franzen's novels, "Crossroads" burrows into the walls behind which a group of people endure the particularly excruciating form of self-flagellation we call family life. The ...
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR A LIT HUB BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'His best novel yet ... A Middlemarch-like triumph' Telegraph Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads is the stunning foundation of a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family ...
― Thomas Mallon, The New York Times Book Review "Franzen is a master of rendering the broad sweep of humanity through the (extremely human) minutia of a family. In Crossroads, I felt a frustration and fondness for the Hildebrandts so deep it was almost familial. This is, perhaps, [Franzen's] greatest skill as a writer . . .
5/5: I will try and keep this brief (Terry) because no review can justify Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen. It's been a few days and I am still loitering about in 1970s Chicago with the Hildebrandt family. Russ Dad, he's an assistant minister at some sort of modern church. He has 4 kids and is married to Marion. It's a tired marriage. He's a resentful man - and is particularly jealous ...
Crossroads. by Jonathan Franzen. Publication Date: October 4, 2022. Genres: Fiction. Paperback: 592 pages. Publisher: Picador. ISBN-10: 1250858704. ISBN-13: 9781250858702. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy.
The action in Crossroads flows and ebbs toward several tour-de-force scenes." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review "Thank God for Jonathan Franzen . . . With its dazzling style and tireless attention to the machinations of a single family, Crossroads is distinctly Franzen-esque, but it represents a marked evolution . . . It's an ...