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The Twenty-Seventh City Hardcover – 1 September 1988
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Jonathan Franzen
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The time is the 1980s. The place is St. Louis, Missouri, once the country's fourth largest city, now the twenty-seventh: a fading river town whose only current claim to national attention is that it has chosen a young woman from Bombay, India to be its new police chief. No sooner has S. Jammu been installed, however, than the city becomes embroiled in a bizzare and all-pervasive political conspiracy.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux (T)
- Publication date1 September 1988
- Dimensions15.75 x 4.06 x 23.62 cm
- ISBN-100374279721
- ISBN-13978-0374279721
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- Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux (T) (1 September 1988)
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 0374279721
- ISBN-13 : 978-0374279721
- Dimensions : 15.75 x 4.06 x 23.62 cm
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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
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Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 December 2015Verified Purchase
Not read all of it yet, but enjoying
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Andrew
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Intriguing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 March 2017Verified Purchase
A must read for any Franzen fan.

Miss JA Glover
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Meh
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 May 2013Verified Purchase
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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Three Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 November 2016Verified Purchase
Story is a bit slow!

George Achim
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Interesting, but not unputdownable
Reviewed in Canada on 20 July 2014Verified Purchase
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.