How to be Alone

by JonathanFranzen (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $8.94

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $11.97

• Used

  Hardcover
  2002

  $5.97

  Jonathan Frantzen's The Harper's Essay is reprinted in How To Be Alone , alongside the personal essays and painstaking, often funny reportage. Although his subjects range from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each piece wrestles with familiar themes of Franzen's writing - the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistence of loneliness, in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include a moving essay on his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease and a rueful account of Franzen's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey author.