Jonathan Franzen

How to be Alone


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      JONATHAN FRANZEN

      HOW TO BE ALONE

      ESSAYS

      

Copyright

      Fourth Estate An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

       www.harpercollins.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2002

      Copyright ©Jonathan Franzen 2002

      Jonathan Franzen asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780007153589

      Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2012 ISBN: 9780007389063 Version: 2017-06-09

       Praise

      From the reviews of How to Be Alone:

      ‘Stunning … Each page is studded with irresistible writing which leaves you breathless for more. Franzen’s strength is his ability to combine a rigorous intellectual approach with an upbeat energy, using language which touches the heart as surely as the head’

       Time Out

      ‘How to Be Alone reveals [Franzen] to be an impressively versatile non-fiction writer, equally sure of touch and tone whether reporting on the US prison system, reviewing sex self-help books, or joining the debates about privacy and smoking with a rare acuity and sanity’

       Guardian

      ‘Franzen possesses an incredibly strong narrative voice – his tone is packed with confidence, exuberance and energy … In its ambition, its intellectual vigour and its knowledge, [How to Be Alone] more than justifies its place on any bookshelf … At his best, [Franzen] is nothing less than mesmerising’

       Sunday Business Post

      ‘Full of quips and aphorisms, [Franzen] is the Montaigne of our times, both inventively comic and deadly serious … Beguiling … You love him for his scrupulous honesty and for his arresting originality’

       Harpers & Queen

      ‘Franzen’s almost casual brilliance with language can leave you giddy with the thrill’

       Irish Times

      ‘An engrossing read where the combination of plot with technical detail is exquisite … ideal for anyone who enjoys intelligent writing’

      Herald, Glasgow

      ‘Much thought and craft has gone into these essays … [Franzen’s] writing is an antidote in itself to the gloom it so eloquently describes’

       Sunday Telegraph

       DEDICATION

      FOR KATHY CHETKOVICH

      Contents

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

       LOST IN THE MAIL

       ERIKA IMPORTS

       SIFTING THE ASHES

       THE READER IN EXILE

       FIRST CITY

       SCAVENGING

       CONTROL UNITS

       MR. DIFFICULT

       BOOKS IN BED

       MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS

       INAUGURATION DAY, JANUARY 2001

       KEEP READING

       ABOUT THE AUTHOR

       ALSO BY JONATHAN FRANZEN

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

       A WORD ABOUT THIS BOOK

      MY THIRD NOVEL, The Corrections, which I’d worked on for many years, was published a week