{"id":294416,"date":"2018-09-06T22:41:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/amazon-com-freedom-a-novel-oprahs-book-club-3.php"},"modified":"2018-09-06T22:41:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:41:20","slug":"amazon-com-freedom-a-novel-oprahs-book-club-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/freedom\/amazon-com-freedom-a-novel-oprahs-book-club-3.php","title":{"rendered":"Amazon.com: Freedom: A Novel (Oprah&#8217;s Book Club &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A masterpiece of American fiction. The New York Times Book Review<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Franzen has written his most deeply felt novel yet--a novel that turns out to be both a compelling biography of a dysfunctional family and an indelible portrait of our times. The New York Times<\/p>\n<p>A work of total genius. New York Magazine<\/p>\n<p>The Great American Novel. Esquire<\/p>\n<p>One of the best living American novelists. Time<\/p>\n<p>Epic. Vanity Fair<\/p>\n<p>Hugely ambitious . . . Freedom is very, very good. USA Today<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant . . . Epic . . . An extraordinary stylist. The Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>A surprisingly moving and even hopeful epic. NPR<\/p>\n<p>Sweeping and powerful. San Francisco Chronicle<\/p>\n<p>Consuming and extraordinarily moving. Los Angeles Times<\/p>\n<p>Immense and unforgettable. Chicago Tribune<\/p>\n<p>Devastatingly insightful. The Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>A page turner that engages the mind. Newsday<\/p>\n<p>It's refreshing to see a novelist who wants to engage the questions of our time in the tradition of 20th-century greats like John Steinbeck and Sinclair Lewis . . . [This] is a book you'll still be thinking about long after you've finished reading it. Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>Deeply moving and superbly crafted . . . It's such a full novel, rich in description, broad in its reach and full of wry observations. Pittsburg Post-Gazette<\/p>\n<p>His writing is so gorgeous . . . Franzen is one of those exceptional writers whose works define an era and a generation, and his books demand to be read. St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/p>\n<p>A tour de force . . . one of the finest novelists of his generation. The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/p>\n<p>A highly readable triumph of conventional realism . . . Addictive. The National<\/p>\n<p>The first Great American Novel of the post-Obama era. Telegraph (UK)<\/p>\n<p>A literary genius . . . This is simply on a different plane from other contemporary fiction . . . Freedom is the novel of the year, and the century. The Guardian (UK)<\/p>\n<p>A triumph . . . A pleasure to read. The New York Observer<\/p>\n<p>Exhilarating . . . Gripping . . . Moving . . . On a level with The Great Gatsby [and] Gone With the Wind. Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Visit link: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Freedom-Novel-Oprahs-Book-Club\/dp\/0312576463\" title=\"Amazon.com: Freedom: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club ...\">Amazon.com: Freedom: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club ...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A masterpiece of American fiction.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/freedom\/amazon-com-freedom-a-novel-oprahs-book-club-3.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}