A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen’s tale of growing up, squirming in his own über-sensitive skin, from a “small and fundamentally ridiculous person,” into an adult wi...

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FREEDOM and THE CORRECTIONS Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's s...

The Lambert family isn't doing well. Alfred has Parkinson's disease and a bad case of alienation from his wife, Enid. Gary is a banker with a heart of steel. Chip is in New York City trying to find himself, but losing the battle. And ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER•A NEW YORK TIMES10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR•Winner of the John Gardner Fiction Award•A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist•A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Freedom, b...

From THE NEW YORK TIMESbestselling author of The Corrections and Freedom New York TimesBestselling Author National Book Award Winner “Jonathan Franzen, an abundantly gifted writer, has even more nerve than talent” (...

25th Anniversary Edition Picador Modern Classics Published in 1988, Jonathan Franzen's The Twenty-Seventh City is the debut novel of a writer who would come to define our times.  St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city unt...