Word: franzenã
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...other has been frequently, almost carelessly, associated with that portentous label of “Great American Novel.” Salman Rushdie’s Fury is his first novel since he received his new, fatwa-free lease on life, and is set in New York City; Jonathan Franzen??s The Corrections is his first novel since he so boldly claimed in the pages of Harper’s to have the secret to reviving American fiction. Both deal with life in America at the turn of the century, both are preoccupied by the angst of simply...
References to Jonathan Franzen??s “eagerly anticipated third novel” have been appearing in print for months; advance reader’s copies of The Corrections came with a letter from its highly respected editor and publisher, Jonathan Galassi, who called it “one of the very best [books] we’ve published in my fifteen years at FSG [Farrar, Straus & Giroux],” praise not to be taken lightly; the New York Times ran feature articles in both its magazine and book review; and the excitement led Time magazine...