04263cam a2200637 4500 528898732 TxAuBib 20211108120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781427218599 1427218595 c1ca2501-91c8-4c0a-89c0-befcfe479008 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 389422 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Franzen, Jonathan. Freedom [Libby] : A Novel. Macmillan Audio, 2010. books on tape. literary fiction. family life. audiobooks. contemporary fiction. Minnesota. audio books. political fiction. Environmental Issues. American Literature. great American novel. social realism. best selling authors. contemporary novels. best selling fiction. new york times best selling books. jonathan frazen. jonathen franzen. political fiction books. the great american novel. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 664MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 664MB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p>From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about family.</p> <p>Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul-the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter's dreams. Together with Walter-environmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family man-she was doing her small part to build a better world.<br /> But now, in the new millennium, the Berglunds have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter taken a job working with Big Coal? What exactly is Richard Katz-outré rocker and Walter's college best friend and rival-still doing in the picture? Most of all, what has happened to Patty? Why has the bright star of Barrier Street become "a very different kind of neighbor," an implacable Fury coming unhinged before the street's attentive eyes?</p> <p>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 Freedom's intensely realized characters 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.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Audie Award Nominee. Notable Books for Adults. The New York Times Best Seller List. 10 Best Books of 2010. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Ledoux, David. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1493-1/389422-Freedom.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/389422-Freedom.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C1CA2501-91C8-4C0A-89C0-BEFCFE479008&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1493-1/389422-Freedom.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/389422-Freedom.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C1CA2501-91C8-4C0A-89C0-BEFCFE479008&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)