Jonathan Franzen
How to Be Alone
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Crossroads
- A Novel
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 24 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Jonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My new favorite Franzen
- By Emilie Anne on 2021-10-13
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Crossroads
- A Novel
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Series: A Key to All Mythologies, Book 1
- Length: 24 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 2021-10-05
- Language: English
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The Corrections
- A Novel
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent.
- By Suzanne Rothe on 2019-08-20
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The Corrections
- A Novel
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 2010-12-29
- Language: English
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Freedom
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: David Ledoux
- Length: 24 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4 out of 5 stars 29
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....
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2 out of 5 stars
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I tried to like this book and I just couldn't
- By Jenna Wright on 2018-04-16
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Freedom
- Narrated by: David Ledoux
- Length: 24 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 2012-06-01
- Language: English
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How to Be Alone
- Essays
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen, Brian d'Arcy James
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001. Nearly every in-depth review of it discussed what became known as "The Harper's Essay," Franzen's controversial 1996 investigation of the fate of the American novel....
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How to Be Alone
- Essays
- Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen, Brian d'Arcy James
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 2013-01-29
- Language: English
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Purity
- A Novel
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Dylan Baker, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 25 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- By Ms. on 2019-06-16
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Purity
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Dylan Baker, Robert Petkoff
- Length: 25 hrs
- Release date: 2015-09-01
- Language: English
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Strong Motion
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 20 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 4
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4
Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother....
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Strong Motion
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 20 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 2013-10-22
- Language: English
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Crossroads
- A Novel (A Key to All Mythologies, Book 1)
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless - unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first....
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3 out of 5 stars
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ho hum characters in a long ho hum plot
- By fishface42 on 2024-02-01
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Crossroads
- A Novel (A Key to All Mythologies, Book 1)
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Series: A Key to All Mythologies, Book 1
- Length: 24 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 2021-10-05
- Language: English
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Freedom [French Version]
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Pierre-François Garel
- Length: 23 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Anatomie d'un mariage et d'une famille - les Berglund -, ce livre analyse les illusions, les déceptions et les compromis d'une génération de baby-boomers...
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Freedom [French Version]
- Narrated by: Pierre-François Garel
- Length: 23 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 2016-06-17
- Language: French
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The Corrections
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Kelly Burke, Colin Stinton, Richard Schiff, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance3 out of 5 stars 1
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Story1 out of 5 stars 1
This dramatisation of Jonathan Franzen's acclaimed, epic, award-winning novel revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the mid-20th century to 'one last Christmas' together near the turn of the millennium....
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The Corrections
- A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
- Narrated by: Kelly Burke, Colin Stinton, Richard Schiff, full cast, Sam Dale, Maggie Steed, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Roslyn Hill
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 2021-06-24
- Language: English
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The Discomfort Zone
- A Personal History
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 1
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Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri....
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The Discomfort Zone
- A Personal History
- Narrated by: Jonathan Franzen
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 2006-09-21
- Language: English
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The Corrections
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 3
After almost 50 years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease...
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The Corrections
- Narrated by: Dylan Baker
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 2001-09-06
- Language: English
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The Twenty-Seventh City
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Meetu Chilana
- Length: 20 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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....
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The Twenty-Seventh City
- Narrated by: Meetu Chilana
- Length: 20 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 2013-10-22
- Language: English
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The End of the End of the Earth
- Essays
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 2
The End of the End of the Earth is a collection of Jonathan Franzen's essays and speeches from the past five years, in which he grapples with the most important and heated ethical subjects of the day: environmentalism, capitalism, wealth inequality, race, technology....
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The End of the End of the Earth
- Essays
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 2018-12-04
- Language: English
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Pureza [Purity]
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Irene Serrano Guerrero
- Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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A partir de las vidas entrecruzadas de un puñado de personajes retratados con un grado de realismo que hipnotiza al lector, el relato gira en torno a una joven de nombre dickensiano, Purity «Pip» Tyler, que tras su paso por la universidad se afana en encarrilar su vida acorde....
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Pureza [Purity]
- Narrated by: Irene Serrano Guerrero
- Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 2022-09-29
- Language: Spanish
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El fin del fin de la tierra [The End of the End of the Earth]
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Rafael de la Rica Hernández
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Esta variada serie de artículos, publicados en los más prestigiosos medios norteamericanos, reúne dieciséis piezas que muestran la amplitud de miras de Franzen, en algún caso con claros tintes autobiográficos....
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El fin del fin de la tierra [The End of the End of the Earth]
- Narrated by: Rafael de la Rica Hernández
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 2022-02-24
- Language: Spanish
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Encrucijadas [Crossroads]
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Rafael de la Rica Hernández
- Length: 27 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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En vísperas de las Navidades del año 1971, en Chicago se anuncia una gran nevada. Russ Hildebrandt, pastor en una iglesia progresista de un barrio residencial, está a punto de liberarse de un matrimonio que considera desdichado, salvo que su esposa, Marion....
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Encrucijadas [Crossroads]
- Narrated by: Rafael de la Rica Hernández
- Length: 27 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 2021-10-21
- Language: Spanish
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Libertad [Freedom]
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen, Isabel Ferrer Marrades - translator
- Narrated by: Irene Serrano Guerrero
- Length: 23 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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El retrato minucioso de una familia del Medio Oeste americano a lo largo de varias décadas adquiere en la prosa maestra de Jonathan Franzen un carácter universal y se convierte en una incisiva radiografía de nuestro tiempo....
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Libertad [Freedom]
- Narrated by: Irene Serrano Guerrero
- Length: 23 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-23
- Language: Spanish
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Crossroads (German edition)
- Ein Schlüssel zu allen Mythologien 1
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen, Bettina Abarbanell - Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Sascha Rotermund
- Length: 26 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Der größte Roman, den Jonathan Franzen seit den Korrekturen geschrieben hat. Sein Meisterwerk! Es ist der 23. Dezember 1971, und die Familie...
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Crossroads (German edition)
- Ein Schlüssel zu allen Mythologien 1
- Narrated by: Sascha Rotermund
- Length: 26 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 2021-10-05
- Language: German
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Las correcciones [The Corrections]
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen, Ramón Buenaventura
- Narrated by: Eugenio Barona
- Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Con esta historia inmisericorde de una típica familia norteamericana, Jonathan Franzen obtuvo el National Book Award y el Premio James Tait Black Memorial, y fue finalista de los premios Pulitzer y Pen/Faulkner....
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Las correcciones [The Corrections]
- Narrated by: Eugenio Barona
- Length: 24 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 2021-09-23
- Language: Spanish
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Wann hören wir auf, uns etwas vorzumachen?
- Gestehen wir uns ein, dass wir die Klimakatastrophe nicht verhindern können
- Written by: Jonathan Franzen
- Narrated by: Johannes Steck
- Length: 37 mins
- Abridged
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Wir müssen der Wahrheit ins Gesicht sehen, sagt Jonathan Franzen, der sich seit vielen Jahren mit Themen des Umweltschutzes beschäftigt...
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Wann hören wir auf, uns etwas vorzumachen?
- Gestehen wir uns ein, dass wir die Klimakatastrophe nicht verhindern können
- Narrated by: Johannes Steck
- Length: 37 mins
- Release date: 2020-05-29
- Language: German
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