![]() ![]() ![]() "You can't lie on your bed all afternoon, and you can't be possibly any number of things. "The key part of becoming an adult is that adults relinquish a certain kind of freedom," he tells Terry Gross. In an interview on Fresh Air, Franzen says one of the central themes of Freedom is how people change as they straddle the world between their childhood and grownup lives. It has been called a "masterpiece of American fiction" by Time Magazine and "an indelible portrait of our times" by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times. Jonathan Franzen's new epic novel Freedom is a portrait of a Midwestern suburban family - two parents and two children slowly losing track of each other and themselves. He is pictured above at The New Yorker Festival Fiction Night in New York City in 2009. Jonathan Franzen is also the author of The Corrections: A Novel, and The Discomfort Zone, a memoir. ![]()
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