books by Jonathan Franzen     books:     Jonathan Franzen      Spring Awakening: A Play Frank Wedekind Faber & Faber, 2007 Brilliant Play by a brilliant Writer as an actor I have just performed this play I was Mechior one of the lead roles this book has a mixture of teenage experiences, a must read for all directors and actors if you ever get a chance to perform it then make sure you do             The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History Jonathan Franzen Picador, 2007 Discomfort and Revelation These autobiographical essays teeter between personal revelation and keeping the reader at arm's length and the discussion at an intellectual level. Franzen describes in unforgiving detail how he chose the wrong realtor to sell his mother's house. We see him fall for ...             The Twenty-Seventh City (Bestselling Backlist) Jonathan Franzen Picador, 2001 Franzen's fascinating debut The Twenty Seventh City is Jonathan Franzen's first book, but his debut is exceptional. Had I read this book back in the late eighty when it was first released, I'd followed Franzen's career more closely. Not many twenty-something year-olds can write with such clarity, ...             Strong Motion: A Novel Jonathan Franzen Picador, 2001 Franzen's "Religious" Exploration Although this novel is unorthodox and the first half of it is very slow, it is also highly worth reading because the payoff for sticking it out is great. This is Franzen's novel which focuses on "the soul". His other two novels -- The Corrections and The ...             The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Sloan Wilson Da Capo Press, 2002 The Soul of a Hero Reborn Tom Rath, a WWII veteran who survived against incredible odds, feels stressed, distant and unhappy. He has a wife and three kids and works in an unchallenging administrative job that affords him but modest pay and no real room for advancement. He tries for and gets ...             How to Be Alone: Essays Jonathan Franzen Picador, 2003 Superb collection "How To Be Alone" by Jonathan Franzen is the most remarkable collection of essays I've read so far. Perhaps there's a better one, perhaps there are other authors whose mastery of language is sufficient enough to awaken my curiosity about the power of words over ...             The Corrections: A Novel Jonathan Franzen Picador, 2002 Well worth the investment in time Don't believe the hype about the hype. Brilliantly imagined, extremely well written, and just a pleasure to read.             The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958 Charles M. Schulz Fantagraphics Books, 2005 The best comic strip ever? There was a time when the newspaper comic strip was HUGE. In the early 1900s, the success of a newspaper was in part due to the comics it featured. That era has long since disappeared, and it often seems that the comic strip is a neglected relic. There are still ...             The Discomfort Zone Jonathan Franzen Highbridge Audio, 2006 The Discomfort Zone is Franzen's memoir of growth from his boyhood as a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions. It's also a portrait of a Midwestern middle-class family weathering the turbulence of the 1970s and a vivid ...             The Gambler (Hesperus Classics) Fyodor Dostoevsky Hesperus Press, 2005 Based on Dostoevsky's own troubled experiences at the gaming tables, The Gambler is a brilliant and telling portrayal of a man crippled by the overwhelming powers of addiction and obsession. Stationed in the house of a tyrannical Russian general, Aleksei Ivanovich seeks solace in the hypnotic turn of the roulette wheel. Yet, what begins as an ...             Ciudad Veintisiete/the Twenty-seventh City Jonathan Frazen, Luis Murillo Fort Santillana USA Publishing Company, 2003 St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner Jammu gets settled, the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. Description in Spanish: En esta novela desbordante aparecen, amparados bajo ...             Scavenging.: An article from: The Antioch Review Jonathan Franzen Antioch Review, Inc., 1996 Great artical about the troubling times Jonathan Franzen is a great writer who is torn apart by worries about the decline in the amount of good literature being read. During the article he makes a desperate cry to the readers about not giving in to the "burden of knowledge" and allowing technology medicate ...             The Corrections: A Novel Jonathan Franzen Picador, 2002          products you might be interested in search for books bestselling, corrections, discomfort, scavenging, twenty-seventh, veintisiete      toavi.com    web we recommend Well worth the investment in time randomly chosen VHS: Play Piano Overnight (w/Audio Cassette)