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How To Be Alone - Essays
by Franzen, Jonathan
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine unmarked, no spine creases.
- ISBN 10
- 0312422164
- ISBN 13
- 9780312422165
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Picador, Oct 2003. 1st edition, 1st printing.. Trade paperback in color illus wraps.. Fine unmarked, no spine creases.. Revised & expanded edition; essays focusing on the persistence of loneliness in postmodern America. Bright tight clean unread copy.
5-1/2 x 8-1/4, 306 pp.
5-1/2 x 8-1/4, 306 pp.
Synopsis
How to Be Alone is a 2002 book collecting fourteen essays by Jonathan Franzen. Most of the essays previously appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Details, and Graywolf Forum. In the introductory essay, "A Word About This Book", Franzen notes that the "underlying investigation in all these essays" is "the problem of preserving individuality and complexity in a noisy and distracting mass culture: the question of how to be alone.
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Details
- Bookseller
- edburynbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39131
- Title
- How To Be Alone - Essays
- Author
- Franzen, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback in color illus wraps.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine unmarked, no spine creases.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition, 1st printing.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0312422164
- ISBN 13
- 9780312422165
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- Oct 2003
- Bookseller catalogs
- Essays, Anthologies, Humor;
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About the Seller
edburynbooks
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About edburynbooks
I sell from my home, where I have about 25,000 books shelved or stored. I am also an author, poet, photographer, taroist, publisher, collector. Selling books online for almost 15 years, including my own titles and rare books from my collection.
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