{"product_id":"freedom-reread-rereadings-9780231188920","title":"Freedom Reread Rereadings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this reconsideration of \u003ci\u003eFreedom\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), L. Gibson explores the difficulty of coming to terms with Jonathan Franzen. Wide-ranging and stylistically ambitious, \u003ci\u003eFreedom Reread\u003c\/i\u003e delivers an assured, artful inquiry into Franzen’s novelistic technique and public persona.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat can reading Franzen tell us about fiction and what we want from it, and don't, and how that changes? Gibson pushes past both eyerolling dismissals of Franzen and the uncritical accolades of Oprah and \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and takes the novels seriously as complex, if flawed, works of fiction that inspire and reward immersive and close reading. -- Briallen Hopper, author of \u003ci\u003eHard to Love: Essays and Confessions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFranzen fanatics of the world, rejoice! L. Gibson gifts us not only an excellent study of Franzen’s \u003ci\u003eFreedom\u003c\/i\u003e—but also a brilliantly ambivalent autofictional self-portrait that teaches us what it feels like to be trapped inside the event horizon of the literary singularity known as Jonathan Franzen. -- Lee Konstantinou, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Samurai Reread\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA passionate, scholarly attempt to sort out one of American literature’s most divisive figures. * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Coming Down on Franzen\u003cbr\u003e2. “Ah, but Underneath”\u003cbr\u003e3. Agnostic Omniscience\u003cbr\u003e4. “Everyone’s a Moralist”\u003cbr\u003e5. Exiled in Guyville\u003cbr\u003e6. The More He Fought About It, the Angrier He Got\u003cbr\u003e7. Coming Down on Franzen (2)\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400333664599,"sku":"9780231188920","price":54.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231188920.jpg?v=1730470415","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/freedom-reread-rereadings-9780231188920","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}