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The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen, author of the prize winning and internationally bestselling, ‘The Corrections’.

By the author of the bestseller ‘The Corrections’ and the sensational ‘Freedom’, ‘The Twenty-Seventh City’ is a novel of intrigue, humour and fear. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, ‘The Twenty-Seventh City’ shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American Dream unravelling into terror and dark comedy.

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14 December 2017
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Jonathan Franzen's work includes four novels (The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections, Freedom), two collections of essays (Farther Away, How To Be Alone), a memoir (The Discomfort Zone), and, most recently, The Kraus Project. He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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'A huge and masterly drama…gripping and surreal and overwhelmingly convincing.' Laura Shapiro, Newsweek
'A novel so imaginatively and expansively of our times that is seems ahead of them.' Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times
'Franzen has managed to put together a suspense story with the elements of a complex, multi-layered psychological novel…A riveting piece of fiction that lingers in the mind long after more conventional pot-boilers have bubbled away.' Peter Andrews, The New York Times Book Review
‘Unsettling and visionary…“The Twenty-Seventh City” is not a novel that can be quickly dismissed or easily forgotten: it has elements of both “Great” and “American”…A book of memorable characters, surprising situations, and provocative ideas.’ Washington Post

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B077T2RC1B
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fourth Estate (14 December 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1597 KB
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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.

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AnnaB

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 December 2015

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Not read all of it yet, but enjoying

Andrew

Intriguing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 March 2017

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A must read for any Franzen fan.

Miss JA Glover

Meh

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 May 2013

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Loved the Corrections, Freedom less so. This was OK, but the dream scape-like setting and plot didn't work for me. What I loved about the Corrections was its witty and dry tone, The Twenty-Seventh City wasn't for me.

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Tony Cremin

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Story is a bit slow!

George Achim

Interesting, but not unputdownable

Reviewed in Canada on 20 July 2014

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I read this book after Corrections and I must say I was disappointed, it does not have the same reach. Interesting and witty at times, but the central theme is too dramatic and unrealistic. In Corrections one is transposed in the story, whereas in the 27th city one remains a spectator wondering what the fuss is about. Jonathan's writing is superb, one can see undoubtedly his skill.

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