Freedom

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In his first novel since The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has given us an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. In charting the mistakes and joys of Walter and Patty Berglund as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing world, Franzen has produced an indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time. ([source][1]) [1]: https://jonathanfranzen.com/books/

subjects: Zionism,  cerulean warblers,  human overpopulation,  strip-mining,  liberalism,  environmentalism,  date-rape,  suburban life,  dysfunctional families,  Middle class families,  Husband and wife,  Environmentalists,  nyt:hardcover_fiction=2010-08-29,  New York Times bestseller,  Fiction,  City and town life,  Domestic fiction,  Married people,  Family life,  Domestic relations,  University of South Alabama,  Ehepaar,  Dreierbeziehung,  Konflikt,  Large type books,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, family life,  Saint paul (minn.), fiction,  Married people, fiction,  Fiction, family life, general,  Freund,  Fictional Works

People: Patty Berglund,  Walter Berglund,  Richard Katz,  Jessica Berglund,  Joey Berglund,  Connie Monaghan,  Eliza,  Lalitha,  Jonathan,  Jenna,  Kenny Bartles

Places: Minnesota,  Barrier Street,  Saint Paul,  Washington D.C.,  Ramsey Hill,  University of Minnesota,  West Virginia,  Jersey City,  University of Virginia,  Brooklyn,  Canterbridge Estates Lake,  New York

Times: 2004