Beschreibung:
Content: The essay in dark times ; Manhattan 1981 ; Why birds matter ; Save what you love ; Capitalism in hyperdrive ; May your life be ruined ; A friendship ; A rooting interest ; Rules for the novelist ; Missing ; The regulars ; Invisible losses ; Note from 9/13/01 ; Postcards from East Africa ; The end of the end of the Earth ; Xing ped
The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them.” For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk-taking essayist. Now, at a moment when technology has inflamed tribal hatreds and the planet is beset by unnatural calamities, he is back with a new collection of essays that recall us to more humane ways of being in the world.