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092    BIO|bFRANZEN 
100 1  Weinstein, Philip M.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Jonathan Franzen :|bthe comedy of rage /|cPhilip 
       Weinstein. 
246 3  comedy of rage 
264  1 New York :|bBloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury 
       Publishing Inc,|c2015. 
300    xi, 230 pages :|billustrations (some color) ;|c23 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent. 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia. 
338    volume|2rdacarrier. 
500    Includes index. 
505 8  Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter One: 
       Introductory -- Chapter Two: Becoming Jonathan Franzen -- 
       Chapter Three: A Bugged World: The Twenty-Seventh City -- 
       Chapter Four: Something Wrong in the Underbrush: Strong 
       Motion -- Chapter Five: Status and Contract, Collapse and 
       Arrival -- Chapter Six: All in the Family: The Corrections
       -- Chapter Seven: Taking and Mistaking: Freedom -- Chapter
       Eight: The New Yorker -- Index. 
510 4  Publishers Weekly,|cAugust 17, 2015. 
520    "Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first 
       critical biography of one of today's most important 
       novelists. Drawing on unpublished emails and a private 
       interview (along with published ones), Philip Weinstein 
       conveys the feel and heft of Franzen's voice as he ponders
       the purposes and problems of his life and his art, from 
       his earliest fiction to his most recent novel, Purity.  
       Franzen's work raises major questions about the 
       possibilities of contemporary fiction: how does one appeal
       to a broad mass of mainstream readers, on the one hand, 
       while persuading connoisseurs, on the other, that one's 
       fiction has staying power, is high art? Even more acutely,
       how did Franzen move from the rage that animates his first
       two novels to the more generous comic stance of the two 
       later novels on which his reputation rests?   Wrestling 
       with these questions, Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage
       unpacks the becoming of Franzen as a person and a writer-
       from his ultra-sensitive Midwestern childhood, through his
       heady years at Swarthmore College, his marriage, and the 
       alienating decade of the 1990s, up to his spectacular 
       ascent and assimilation into pop-culture as one of the 
       literary figures of his generation. Weinstein joins 
       biography and criticism in ways that fully respect their 
       differences-but that also grant that the work comes, 
       however unpredictably, out of the life"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
520    "The first critical biography of Jonathan Franzen, 
       exploring the trajectory of his career and the 
       intersections of his life and work"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
521 1  Adult.|bBrodart. 
600 10 Franzen, Jonathan. 
650  0 Authors, American|y20th century|vBiography.