Buy new:

$20.11

$3.00 delivery: 1 - 8 June

In stock.

[{"displayPrice":"$20.11","priceAmount":20.11,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"20","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"11","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"dixSl9oV1WE6P%2BxO8kQCFQjgXDNMYJzEbkPYjQYXXexMAcCb6D601mpvVOyp2X2dV%2FwtzCwfRdjQJrxr2pTlGfN6dYLPsh%2Bzt3kYBtfeg6lXf6FdmthG7HT5c7%2FtgW4dLV%2FnxlbPYS%2FTdGOrcG237e%2BbNdKxnQYjl03A%2FZw9BMi8hkmPoE2KiqN49kZNEtzA","locale":"en-AU","buyingOptionType":"NEW"}]

$$20.11 () Includes selected options. Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. Details

Secure transaction

Ships from

Rarewaves UK

Sold by

Rarewaves UK

Details

Ships from

Rarewaves UK

Sold by

Rarewaves UK

Share <Embed>

Other Sellers on Amazon

Added

Not added

$22.64
& FREE Delivery

Sold by: Book Depository UK

Added

Not added

$25.26
& FREE Delivery

Sold by: PBShopUK-au TRACKED

Added

Not added

$25.56
& FREE Delivery

Sold by: Wordery AU

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See all 4 images

Follow the Author

Jonathan Franzen

The End of the End of the Earth: Essays Hardcover – 13 November 2018

by Jonathan Franzen (Author)

77 ratings

See all formats and editions

Amazon Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$10.99

—

Audible Audiobook, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$0.00

Free with your Audible trial

Hardcover

"Please retry"

$20.11

$18.28

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$33.50

$25.09

—

Digital, Unabridged, WAV

"Please retry"

—

Enhance your purchase

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections

The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like "a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them." For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk-taking essayist. Now, at a moment when technology has inflamed tribal hatreds and the planet is beset by unnatural calamities, he is back with a new collection of essays that recall us to more humane ways of being in the world.

Franzen's great loves are literature and birds, and The End of the End of the Earth is a passionate argument for both. Where the new media tend to confirm one's prejudices, he writes, literature "invites you to ask whether you might be somewhat wrong, maybe even entirely wrong, and to imagine why someone else might hate you." Whatever his subject, Franzen's essays are always skeptical of received opinion, steeped in irony, and frank about his own failings. He's frank about birds, too (they kill "everything imaginable"), but his reporting and reflections on them--on seabirds in New Zealand, warblers in East Africa, penguins in Antarctica--are both a moving celebration of their beauty and resilience and a call to action to save what we love.

Calm, poignant, carefully argued, full of wit, The End of the End of the Earth provides a welcome breath of hope and reason.

Print length

240 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date

13 November 2018
Dimensions

14.5 x 2.25 x 21.36 cm
ISBN-10

0374147930
ISBN-13

978-0374147938
See all details

New children's books bundles!

Book bundles for children's growth and development. Shop now

Frequently bought together

+
+

Total Price:

To see our price, add these items to your cart.

Some of these items dispatch sooner than the others.

Show details Hide details

Choose items to buy together.

by Jonathan Franzen Hardcover
$22.64
Usually dispatched within 2 to 3 days.
Ships from and sold by Book Depository UK.
FREE Delivery
by Jonathan Franzen Hardcover
$27.90
In stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon AU.
Hardcover
$100.44
Only 1 left in stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon US.
FREE Delivery

Jonathan Franzen
24
Paperback
3 offers from $11.75
Jonathan Franzen
62
Paperback
7 offers from $21.23
Jonathan Franzen
130
Paperback
11 offers from $22.81

Product description

Review

The work of a writer at the top of his game-limber and lovely, delivering deep insights with delicacy and grace. --Sarah Crown, The Guardian

Franzen, unlike many, listens. It's what makes him one of the best living writers of fictional dialogue, and it's what makes his arguments productively provocative. --Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post

[Franzen's] turning over rocks along the shore and finding noteworthy details beneath. --Bill McKibben, The New York Times Book Review

If, as F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, the "test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function", then Franzen has passed with flying colours. --Andrew Gallix, The Irish Times

The End of the End of the Earth feels carefully crafted around a central concern: 'How do we find meaning in our actions when the world seems to be coming to an end?' . . . Franzen proves himself up to the challenge of the essay as a form, as 'something hazarded, not definitive, not authoritative, ' and of a subject so vast and important that it affects us all. Ignore the tweets, read the book. --Carl Wilkinson, Financial Times

About the Author

Jonathan Franzen is the author of five novels, including The Corrections, Freedom, and Crossroads, and five works of nonfiction, most recently Farther Away and The End of the End of the Earth, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

Start reading The End of the End of the Earth on your Kindle in under a minute.

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Farrar, Straus and Giroux (13 November 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0374147930
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0374147938
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.5 x 2.25 x 21.36 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 557,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 916 in U.S. Fiction Anthologies
- 2,987 in Biographies of Novelists
- 4,003 in Essays

Customer Reviews:
77 ratings

About the author

Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations.

Jonathan Franzen

Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.

Full content visible, double tap to read brief content.

Jonathan Franzen is the author of five novels--Purity, Freedom, The Corrections, The Twenty-Seventh City, and Strong Motion--and five works of nonfiction and translation, including Farther Away, How to Be Alone, and The Discomfort Zone, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Kunste, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Customer reviews

5 star		61%
4 star		23%
3 star		11%
2 star		2%
1 star		3%

How are ratings calculated?

Review this product

Write a customer review

Top review from Australia

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Felicity Isaac

One for bird enthusiasts

Reviewed in Australia on 13 October 2019

Verified Purchase

Very smart, cogent writing as you'd expect from JF.

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

janet gough

Should be on 6th form reading list for every student .

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 December 2018

Verified Purchase

This is a gem,remarkable.

One person found this helpful

Kunde A.

Strangely confused essays

Reviewed in Germany on 18 March 2019

Verified Purchase

Franzen wrote excellent essays years back. Now they seem strangely confused, a unbalanced raw mix of objective information and very personal emotions, unstructured and hard to follow and to interpret. A lack of imagination, wit. Most topics are not of interest to the general (European) reader. Otherwise, a lot on bird watching. But he has written better about his hobby in earlier publications. Quite disappointing.

9 people found this helpful

Aran Joseph Canes

A Bleak Outlook Tempered by Sound Advice

Reviewed in the United States on 14 November 2018

Verified Purchase

Jonathan Franzen is often caricatured as an angry man. Angry at conservatives for ignoring humankind’s devastation of the planet and angry at liberals for their smug feeling of moral superiority despite few tangible accomplishments.

However, there is very little anger in The End of the End of the Earth. Instead there is, if not despair, at least a bleak feeling of unstoppable loss permeating the text. Franzen devotes relatively few pages to criticizing Trump and his ilk and instead chooses to focus on his practical ethic of small concrete actions that can be done to preserve what is still good.

For Franzen himself, this is largely dedicated to efforts to preserve the world’s avian wildlife. But mixed in with it are portraits of other individuals defying the Facebook image conscious world by making meaningful human relationships, creating photographic portraits which convey a real sense of the person and, defying the omnipresence of Tweets, writing essays like those in this book that go to the pith of the matter.

Lest you harbor any illusions, the end of the end of the earth is not a new hopeful beginning but a description of the environmental havoc being wreaked in Antarctica (which Franzen aptly refers to as the end of the earth). Instead, what Franzen offers the reader is a vision of the need to do concrete good in a world and biosphere constantly falling into greater entropy.

I doubt this vision will much capture the attention of the American public when there are so many more vapid messages being shouted from megaphones. But that doesn’t make it less sincere or less important. If all that we have at the beginning of the twenty-first century is to ground ourselves in the concrete good before a coming ecological catastrophe it is more than a message of unmitigated despair.

Franzen should be commended for not deploying his artistic talent in the service of the left’s agenda but choosing to articulate his unique vision, popular or not. Highly recommended for those who are able to at least sympathize with such a bleak account of our civilization and planet.

57 people found this helpful

Gloria Z. Nagler

Tearjerker essays...

Reviewed in the United States on 15 November 2018

Verified Purchase

Really, I don't know that I've ever before teared up reading essays. I love most of Franzen's writing, and this book exceeds expectations. I feel as though we've been waiting for these essays to help us cope with the horrors of climate change and the accompanying existential crisis. And now that the frigging midterms are over, I can find a nature conservancy group to join. Thank you, Jonathan.

22 people found this helpful

J. Hart

Insightful, Revealing

Reviewed in the United States on 10 December 2018

Verified Purchase

These essays touch all the points not only about writing essays, but the troubles we have to confront. An excellent collection.

6 people found this helpful

See all reviews

Buy new: $20.11

Other Sellers on Amazon

Follow the Author

The End of the End of the Earth: Essays Hardcover – 13 November 2018

Enhance your purchase

Frequently bought together

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Product description

Review

About the Author

Product details

About the author

Jonathan Franzen

Customer reviews

Review this product

Top review from Australia

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries

Buy new:

$20.11