Depiction of the strange world of a small group of Americans in Chicago during the depression.

"[S]o good that almost any novel you read immediately after it will seem at least a little bit posturing." —Jonathan Franzen No James Purdy novel has dazzled

Jonathan Franzen's Freedom was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the twenty-first century.

Roman, spelend in Chicago in de dertiger jaren, over een groep werklozen, die beheerst wordt door uiteenlopende seksuele relaties.

A classic work of surreal fiction, originally published in 1978, is a passionate and violent love story about adolescent obsession and revenge. By the author of