How To Be Alone

Essays

by Jonathan Franzen

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002, [First Edition],  ISBN 9780374173272, hardcover, dustjacket

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“Here, in fourteen essays, are fourteen fresh answers to the question of how to be alone in a noisy and distracting mass culture.  These essays show the wry distrust of the claims of technology and psychology, the love-hate relationship with consumerism, and the conversive belief in the tragic shape of the individual life that help make Franzen one of our sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics.”