Freedom
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In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Walter and Patty Berglund as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
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Shallow, bitter people leading hollow lives. Am I the only one reminded of [b:The Bonfire of the Vanities 2666 The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1229439221s/2666.jpg 1080201]? Doubtful.Like Bonfire, Freedom leaves me cold. Maybe it captures the zeitgeist of the 90s and 00s. Maybe it's the defining oeuvre. And maybe I'm just not cool enough to get it.Well written, often poignant, Freedom just didn't seem meaningful. I haven't learned or grown from it. No moment of reflection upon finishing the last page, just a quiet “well, that's over with”.
