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The Hildebrandts must be Franzen's most messed-up family yet, and Franzen weaves in and out of their stories, dispensing lots of drugs, a fair amount of sex and even a little rock 'n' roll to...
Crossroads: A Novel is the sixth novel by American author Jonathan Franzen, published on October 5, 2021. It is a family saga set during the 1970s and centers on the Hildebrandt family in the fictional small town of New Prospect, Illinois. [2]
Crossroads, published in October 2021, is Jonathan Franzen’s sixth novel. Like Franzen’s most famous novel, The Corrections, published in 2001 and recipient of the National Book Award, Crossroads is a family drama. It tells the story of the Hildebrandts, a middle-class family in 1970s New Prospect, a fictional suburb of Chicago.
Sep 27, 2021 · In the course of Franzen’s novel, we watch the Hildebrandts pursue such different means of doing all this that they collectively reflect the fracturing of any kind of shared understanding of ...
Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate. Jonathan Franzen’s novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With ...
Oct 4, 2021 · Franzen also locates the Hildebrandts, the clan at the core of Crossroads, in the ’70s—and they, too, live in strained and stifling circumstances. Russ, the patriarch, is an associate minister...
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Sep 30, 2021 · In the first pages of Jonathan Franzen’s new novel Crossroads, he introduces us to Russ Hildebrandt, a man who soon after berates himself as a “fatuous, obsolete, repellent clown.” Three ...
