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The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.

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Main Author: Franzen, Jonathan
Other Authors: Ledoux, David
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: New York : Macmillan Audio, 2010.
Edition:Unabridged
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Middle class families > Fiction.
Environmentalists > Fiction.
City and town life > Minnesota > Fiction.
Husband and wife > Minnesota > Fiction.
Minnesota > Fiction.
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Summary:The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.
Item Description:Unabridged.
Compact disc.
"A Macmillan Audiobook from Farrar, Straus and Giroux" -- Container.
Physical Description:19 sound discs (25 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Production Credits:Produced by Paul Ruben; exec. producer, Laura Wilson.
ISBN:9781427210494
1427210497
Author Notes:Jonathan Franzen was born in Western Springs, Illinois on August 17, 1959. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1981, and went on to study at the Freie University in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar. He worked in a seismology lab at Harvard University's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences after graduation.

His works include The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), How to Be Alone (2002), and The Discomfort Zone (2006). The Corrections (2001) won a National Book Award and the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Freedom (2010) is an Oprah Book Club selection. He also won a Whiting Writers' Award in 1988 and the American Academy's Berlin Prize in 2000. He is also a frequent contributor to Harper's and The New Yorker. In 2015 his title Purity made The New Yort Times and New Zealand Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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