Focusing on the major novels of Franzen's career, Galow charts the layered and aesthetically nuanced work of a novelist fascinated by falsity, binaries, and changing socioeconomic patterns in American society.'-Paul Gagliardi, Marquette University Galow accessibly and deftly argues for us to separate the public persona of Franzen from the complexity of his fiction. 'Perhaps no other contemporary American author elicits such pronounced responses as Franzen, but in this illuminating study, Timothy W. This careful analysis provides a new lens for viewing each of the works and demonstrates why Franzen's stories of (white, bourgeois) American life have inspired and provoked readers for over two decades. He traces Franzen's work from its roots in late twentieth-century literary theory and experimental postmodernism through the socially conscious family novels for which the author is best known. Galow studies Franzen's first five novels and surveys his most recent, Crossroads, which was published to much fanfare in 2021. In Understanding Jonathan Franzen, Timothy W. Love him or hate him, Franzen has proven to be a crucial figure in twenty-first century American letters, and the publication of each new novel has been a major literary event. His follow-up, Freedom (2009), received so much attention that it started a debate over the politics of critical attention. His career took off with the publication of The Corrections (2000), which won a National Book Award and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Jonathan Franzen-novelist and essayist-is a critical darling, commercial success, and magnet for controversy. The first comprehensive study to address Franzen's work to date, including his latest novel, Crossroads

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