{"product_id":"the-end-of-the-end-of-the-earth-9781250234896","title":"The End of the End of the Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eFreedom\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Corrections\u003c\/i\u003e-now with a new epilogue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them. For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk-taking essayist. Now, at a moment when technology has inflamed tribal hatreds and the planet is beset by unnatural calamities, he is back with a new collection of essays that recall us to more humane ways of being in the world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFranzen's great loves are literature and birds, and \u003ci\u003eThe End of the End of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a passionate argument for both. Where the new media tend to confirm one's prejudices, he writes, literature invites you to ask whether you might be somewhat wrong, maybe even entirely wrong, and to imagine why someone else migh\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407273009495,"sku":"9781250234896","price":15.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781250234896.jpg?v=1730498809","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-end-of-the-end-of-the-earth-9781250234896","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}