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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
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 Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | 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
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
$15.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop fa ...Show more
What If We Stopped Pretending? by Jonathan Franzen
$14.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can't prevent it. 'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth--massive crop failures, apocalyptic fires, im ...Show more