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Freedom

Life in her elite, Democratic Westchester hometown had never made much sense to Patty. But she found much to admire at the University of Minnesota, not the least of which was Walter Berglund - a stable, serious, politically conscious law student who slept only four hours each night so that he could...

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Main Author: Franzen, Jonathan.
Other Authors: Ledoux, David.
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language: English
Published: New York : Macmillan Audio, 2010.
Edition: Unabridged.
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Husband and wife > Minnesota > Fiction.
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Summary: Life in her elite, Democratic Westchester hometown had never made much sense to Patty. But she found much to admire at the University of Minnesota, not the least of which was Walter Berglund - a stable, serious, politically conscious law student who slept only four hours each night so that he could make ends meet and take care of his parents. They got married three weeks after her college graduation and their children, Jessica and Joey, followed soon after. Two decades later, we must ask: What happened to the Berglunds? Why has Walter taken a job that finds him rationalizing the kind of unethical behavior that the younger Walter would have condemned? What exactly is Richard Katz -- brilliant musician and Walter's best friend -- still doing in the picture? And what has befallen poor Patty?
Item Description: Unabridged.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (19 audio files) : digital
Playing Time: 24::0:9:
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ISBN: 9781427218599
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.

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