ISBN: | 9780007147250 |
Publisher: | Fourth Estate |
Published: | 7 October, 2002 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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Jonathan Frantzen's The Harper's Essay is reprinted in How To Be Alone, alongside the personal essays and painstaking, often funny reportage. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen's writing - the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistence of loneliness, in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease and a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author.
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