Stu’s Reviews- #472- Book- “Freedom”- Jonathan Franzen

Genre: Book     

Grade:  A-

Notable People: Jonathan Franzen

Title: Freedom

Review:    Franzen has won the National book award for his previous novel, so I was quite eager…but then the book was so very slow to start, I almost gave up. But stuck with it, and it turned out to be a fine read about a 30-year marriage between two iconoclasts. Sweeping story from St. Paul, to the coal mining hollers of West Virginia, to power environmentalists in DC, and a fading 70s rock star in Jersey City. The novel is dense, so read in short segments, which made the lengthy novel go a long way during the Pandemic. The characters really came to life for me as the book progressed. Franzen had a keen eye for detail, language and context…. ugly turns sweet in this book.

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