Name: What if we Stopped Pretending? Jonathan Franzen
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Author: Jonathan Franzen
ISBN: 9780008434045

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What if we Stopped Pretending? Jonathan Franzen

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Jonathan Franzen

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Fourth Estate

Synopsis "What if we Stopped Pretending? Jonathan Franzen "

The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn’t have to mean the world is ending.‘If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world’s inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.’The honesty and realism of Jonathan Franzen’s writings on climate have been widely denounced and just as widely celebrated. Here, in his definitive statement on the subject, Franzen confronts the world’s failure to avert destabilising climate change and takes up the question: Now what?

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Jonathan Franzen (Western Springs, Illinois, 1959) was chosen in 1996 among the Best Young American Novelists by the prestigious Granta magazine. Until that date, he had written the novels Twenty-Seven City (1988) and Strong Motion (1992), but the explosion of his enormous narrative talent took place in 2001 with the release of The Corrections (Salamandra, 2012), which marked a turning point in his career: he won the National Book Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, was a finalist for the Pulitzer and PEN/Faulkner awards, and was discovered by millions of readers around the world. The definitive endorsement came in 2010 with Freedom (Salamandra, 2011), a novel that received the most fervent praise from a wide array of critics and experts from various countries. In Spain, he won the Best Novel of the Year Award, given by the readers of Qué Leer magazine. Five years later, in the fall of 2015, the publication of Purity once again shocked English-speaking readers and established him as one of the great American writers of our time. Additionally, Franzen is the author of five non-fiction works: How to Be Alone (2002), The Discomfort Zone (2006), Farther Away (Salamandra, 2012), The Kraus Project (2013), and The End of the End of the Earth (Salamandra, 2019).

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