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Strong Motion by Jonathan Franzen
$25.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Louis Holland arrives in Boston to strange happenings - in one, an earthquake kills his grandmother. During a feud over the inheritance Louis falls in love with Renee, a seismologist, whose discoveries about the earthquakes complicate everything.
Strong MotionA Novel by Jonathan Franzen
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complica ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2016 by Jonathan Franzen
$26.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Offers illuminating, invaluable glimpses into lives that might otherwise remain outside the reader s ken "Publishers Weekly" The award-winning and best-selling Jonathan Franzen picks the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. He brings his elegance, acumen, and daring as an essa ...Show more
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: fine
The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children - are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is slowly losing his mind to Parkinson's disease. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathe ...Show more
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
$33.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
A brilliantly perceptive and moving novel, that announced Jonathan Franzen as one of our greatest living writers. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on ou ...Show more
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their ...Show more
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century--a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkin ...Show more
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. This is his memoir of his growth from a 'small and fundamentally ridiculous person,' through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions.
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigour to the themes - both human and literary - th ...Show more
The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigour to the themes – both human and literary – th ...Show more
The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzen
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening. Karl Kraus: satirist. Controversialist. Forgotten voice of the early twentieth century. Jonathan Franzen: bestseller. Contrarian. One of the greatest novelists working today. Recalling his stude ...Show more
The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening. A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehu ...Show more