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By: Jonathan Franzen
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25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR

‘The first great American novel of the twenty-first century’ ELLE

'Gluttonously fun, plotted like a museum heist' TONY TULATHIMUTTE

'Funny, poignant, soulful and savage' ELIZABETH DAY

A brilliantly perceptive and moving novel that announced Jonathan Franzen as one of our greatest living writers.

The Lamberts – Enid, Alfred and their three grown-up children – are a troubled family living in a troubled age. After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid is ready to have some fun, but her husband Alfred is losing his mind to Parkinson’s. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the long-buried secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathering everyone together for one last family Christmas.

‘Compellingly readable, funny and above all generous spirited’ Daily Mail

‘A novel of outstanding sympathy, wit, moral intelligence and pathos, a family saga told with stylistic brio and psychological and political insight’ Financial Times

‘A big-hearted, panoramic American epic, intelligent and wise but also wildly, stonkingly funny’ Independent

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Critic reviews

‘Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture’ Don DeLillo
'Impossible to dislike, an unpretentious page-turner' Zadie Smith
'Compelling. A pleasure from beginning to end. Franzen, in one leap, has put himself into the league of Updike and Roth' Evening Standard
‘A book which is funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent, and which poses the ultimate question: what life is for? And that is as much as anyone could ask' Guardian
‘Intelligent, compellingly readable, funny and above all generous spirited, it is a rare thing, a modern novel with both head and heart’ Daily Mail
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Read this book if you like great writing, family intrigue as a satire which made me laugh out loud at how awful they all were!

Brilliant

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A fantastic family drama, beautifully performed by the reader. Both hilarious and poignant at the same time.

Little gem

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Dark, funny in parts, very moving in others.
There’s no hero here but you bond with the characters that are so vividly brought to life

Insightful, excellently written family biopic

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A great novel, beautifully read. Within the first sentence you're in this family and you'll follow them through a difficult and funny moments and it will never feel boring. Franzen's prose is pricise and perfectly delivered; he's at ease with the story he wants to tell, this story of a family like any other and extraordinary in its own way. A novel that tries without pretence to capture the essence of life. Loved it.

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