Description
| Product ID: | 9780008308933 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Crossroads |
| Authors: | Author: Jonathan Franzen |
| Page Count: | 592 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Sagas, USA |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating ‘His best novel yet … A Middlemarch-like triumph’ Telegraph ‘His best novel yet … A Middlemarch-like triumph’ Telegraph‘A pleasure bomb of a novel’ Vogue‘A true modern master’ IndependentIt’s 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh graders. His sister Becky, the once straight-laced high school social queen, has veered into counterculture, while at college, Clem is wrestling with a decision that might tear his family apart. As their parents – Russ, a suburban pastor, and Marion, his restless wife – tug against the bonds of a joyless marriage, Crossroads finds a family, and a nation, struggling to do the right thing.‘Funny, moving, crackling with life, it has what all great fiction should have’ Financial Times‘Intoxicating – a luxuriant domestic drama’ GuardianTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 • AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR • A LIT HUB BOOK OF THE YEAR |
| Imprint Name: | Fourth Estate Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-10-04 |
