Freedom: A Novel
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Jonathan Franzen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
576 pages, $28
A penetrating look at contemporary American society through the story of a family in the midwest, the Berglunds. Freedom, like its predecessor, the highly successful The Corrections, is a multi-generational saga in which compelling storytelling is matched with acute social comment. Early responses to the novel indicate that Freedom will cement Franzen’s reputation as the leading light of the generation of American novelists succeeding the Saul Bellow and Philip Roth generation.
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