LEADER 00000nim a22004935a 4500 003 MWT 005 20200922051351.1 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 200904s2010 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 9781427210500 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1427210500 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ mcm_9781427210500_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT13550777 037 13550777|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 04 813.5/4|222 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Franzen, Jonathan. 245 10 Freedom|h[Hoopla electronic resource]. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bMacmillan Audio,|c2010. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (24hr., 14 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 Reader: David Ledoux. 520 From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about family. 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. 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? 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. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 Middle class families|vFiction. 650 0 Environmentalists|zUnited States|vFiction. 650 0 Husband and wife|vFiction. 650 0 City and town life|zMinnesota|vFiction. 651 0 Minnesota|vFiction. 700 1 Ledoux, David. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 13550777?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ mcm_9781427210500_180.jpeg