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How To Be Alone
 

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Non-Fiction
Criticism & Commentary

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1 2002-00-00 Farrar, Straus & Giroux  

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Blurb: 
While the essays in this collection range in subject matter from the sex-advice industry to the way a supermax prison works, each one wrestles with the essential themes of Franzen"s writing: the erosion of civil life and private dignity; and the hidden persistence of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Reprinted here for the first time is Franzen