From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections , a darkly comedic novel about family
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paulthe gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actua...
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections , a darkly comedic novel about family
Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paulthe gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter’s dreams. Together with Walterenvironmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family manshe was doing her small part to build a better world.
But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katzoutré rocker and Walter’s college best friend and rivalstill doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become a very different kind of neighbor,” an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street’s attentive eyes?
In his first novel since The Corrections , Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Freedom ’s intensely realized characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
Jonathan Franzen is the author of The Corrections, winner of the 2001 National Book Award for fiction; the novels The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion; and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone, all published by FSG. His fourth novel, Freedom, was published in the fall of 2010.
Franzen's other honors include a 1988 Whiting Writers' Award, Granta'...
Jonathan Franzen is the author of The Corrections, winner of the 2001 National Book Award for fiction; the novels The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion; and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone, all published by FSG. His fourth novel, Freedom, was published in the fall of 2010.
Franzen's other honors include a 1988 Whiting Writers' Award, Granta's Best Of Young American Novelists (1996), the Salon Book Award (2001), the New York Times Best Books of the Year (2001), and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (2002).
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0 有用 惊人的土豆 2011-02-22 21:50:49
好书好书！
1 有用 Rilkelee 2014-02-09 09:39:49
3.5，几条故事线中写得最好的就是Walter和Patty之间撕心裂肺的感情纠葛，最不可信的是Walter的Trust Fund和儿子Joey的summer intern。对当前美国精神危机之下核心家庭所面对的社会、道德问题，对人性与情感的描写鞭辟入里，另一方面许多情节转折、人物设置和境遇又刻意得让人扬起眼角。最为本身为书中世界观之一object的Patty的自传，虽然本身并不是bad liter... 3.5，几条故事线中写得最好的就是Walter和Patty之间撕心裂肺的感情纠葛，最不可信的是Walter的Trust Fund和儿子Joey的summer intern。对当前美国精神危机之下核心家庭所面对的社会、道德问题，对人性与情感的描写鞭辟入里，另一方面许多情节转折、人物设置和境遇又刻意得让人扬起眼角。最为本身为书中世界观之一object的Patty的自传，虽然本身并不是bad literature，但这种设置本身极其不让人信服。情节发展有时拖延得冗长痛苦。总体而言肯定是被媒体过誉的一部小说，但还是挺有可读性的。 (展开)
0 有用 Al. 2013-08-08 21:55:31
回家来将近两个星期，总算把这本书读完了。爱情还是最美好的呀，能让人丢开一切丑陋的东西，只要爱的那个人在身边。真羡慕作家，可以构想出那么多人的生活和命运。
0 有用 rainwawa 2015-07-28 07:20:29
I like the way to tell a story
0 有用 O2 2012-09-19 09:04:12
这文笔！这文笔！！这文笔！！！
0 有用 nononenosna 2024-04-19 04:50:27 美国
Audiobook/还是很喜欢patty这个人的
0 有用 鹭纳醍 2023-03-26 16:40:28 北京
3.5吧，最后两章疯狂收线反而让人觉得无聊。这本小说充斥着弗兰岑的勃勃野心，五六百页的文字似乎想将时代问题都讨论个遍，加上作者文笔一如既往得佳良，是蛮适合拿来做研究对象的（不是）。读完后脑子里只留下“爱欲”和“抑郁”两词了😅顺便说一句，弗兰岑真会写屎……
0 有用 DYL 2022-10-19 14:57:36 广东
我想一个作家要要怎样的功底才会让一个第二外语使用者受到和母语使用者一样的冲击。这不是骨架虚弱的爱情小说，它的细节翔实丰满，描写的八十年代大学生活还是让我着迷。全景小说这是，它包含了八十年代的魅力。摇滚，篮球，环境保护，政治，阶级，出轨，中年危机，家庭危机，作者讨论的每一个话题都衔接的如此自然，好像这些事情本该发生，而不是作者虚构出来的。我被美国人的生活密度所震惊。这是我第一次读到四十岁以后的情感社... 我想一个作家要要怎样的功底才会让一个第二外语使用者受到和母语使用者一样的冲击。这不是骨架虚弱的爱情小说，它的细节翔实丰满，描写的八十年代大学生活还是让我着迷。全景小说这是，它包含了八十年代的魅力。摇滚，篮球，环境保护，政治，阶级，出轨，中年危机，家庭危机，作者讨论的每一个话题都衔接的如此自然，好像这些事情本该发生，而不是作者虚构出来的。我被美国人的生活密度所震惊。这是我第一次读到四十岁以后的情感社会危机。并不是别人告诉我的那样，三十岁你就不会变了，生活会一直在漩涡里直到你闭上眼睛之前，因为我闭上眼睛之前都会思考我到底要拿这凭空得来的生命怎么办。五十岁的情感危机真的奇怪的迷人。还有爱，书里描写的爱是那么的复杂，那么迷人。 (展开)
0 有用 倚山 2022-10-09 10:23:09 美国
audible的narrator太好了！Freedom是什么呢？不是有无限可能 而是从无限的可能中做出选择。只可惜这是Patty的happy ending 不是Walter的:-/
0 有用 喵毛裤 2022-10-07 13:49:52 福建
可以理解Walter在Canterbridge 独自度过2000多天的心情。这算是happy ending吗？他对Patty根本无力招架，这个人可以在他的世界走来走去。