Purity jonathan franzen review5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() And as with Freedom, there’s a lengthy scene which involves human faeces. ![]() As with Freedom, it spans decades and examines, in detail, the conflicts within a suburban American family. As with Freedom, it has its good bits and its not so good bits. The Corrections is commonly heralded as a 21 st century masterpiece. Wow! While the book as a whole isn’t without its faults, I still found it enjoyable enough to buy The Corrections a couple of years later. To my surprise though, it doesn’t only feature a Bright Eyes concert it also namedrops Jeff Tweedy and Michael Stipe. The first Franzen novel I read was Freedom, which I decided to pick up purely for the fact that one of its main characters goes to a Bright Eyes concert. For some reason, I decided that I was feeling like a Big American Novel, and so I turned to an author who is usually seen as one of the best recent purveyors of Big American Novels: Jonathan Franzen. There’s always the question of what to read, though. Like a lot of people, I realised pretty early on that one of the potential upsides of lockdown was the opportunity to spend more time reading. ![]()
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