The award-winning author explains to the Guardian book club why he felt compelled to give babyboomers such a tough time in his acclaimed 2010 novelFind out more approximately Guardian Live events
In London to launch his new novel,Purity, Jonathan Franzen dropped in on the Guardian book club to define an earlier book, or which cemented his reputation as one of the leading chroniclers of modern American history with its portrait of a Midwestern family trapped between the aspirations of their babyboomer generation and the realities of life in the Bush era. John Mullan hosted a live event recorded as portion of the Guardian Live programme. Continue reading...
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