Crossroads (Large Print)

Paperback

Main Details

Title Crossroads (Large Print)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jonathan Franzen
SeriesA Key to All Mythologies
Series part Volume No. 1
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreLarge Print
Large Print Press
All Dates
Fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9798885784030
Audience
General
Edition Large Print Edition

Publishing Details

Publisher Large Print Press
Imprint Large Print Press
NZ Release Date 16 November 2022
Publication Country United States

Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND THE GUARDIAN Jonathan Franzens gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads. Its December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless--unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clems sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high school class, has veered into the eras counterculture, while their younger brother Perry, fed up with selling pot to support his drug habit, has firmly resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threaten to complicate. By turns comic and harrowing, a tour-de-force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, Crossroads is the first volume of a trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, that will span three generations and trace the inner life of our culture through the present day. Set in a historical moment of moral crisis and reaching back to the early twentieth century, Crossroads is a sweeping investigation of human mythologies as the Hildebrandt family navigates the political, intellectual, and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years.