Freedom: A Novel Audiobook by Jonathan Franzen

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 179950 Title: Freedom: A Novel Author: Jonathan Franzen Narrator: David LeDoux Format: Unabridged Length: 23:40:00 Language: English Release date: 08-31-10 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Genres: Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction Summary: 'Masterful describes not only Jonathan Franzens latest novel but also David Ledouxs reading of the book . . . Ledoux gives a vibrant performance.' AudioFile Magazine 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. Paulthe 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 Walterenvironmental lawyer, commuter cyclist, total family manshe 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 Katzoutré rocker and Walter's college best friend and rivalstill 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 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. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux Contact: [email protected]