Crossroads

a novel

Belletristik

• FS.E : Fremdsprachige Schriften : Einzelne Sprachen : Englische Schriften
• DR : Belletristik : Romane, Erzählungen und Novellen

Verfasser:
Franzen, Jonathan

Verfasser Angabe:
Jonathan Franzen

Sprache:
Englisch

• Englisch
• Familie
• Gesellschaft
• Belletristische Darstellung
• Geschichte
• Mittlerer Westen

Verlag:
Farrar Straus Giroux

Erscheinungsort:
New York

Jahr:
2021

Umfang:
580 S.

Fußnote:
Text: Englisch

ISBN:
978-0-374-60519-3

Interessenskreise:
American Literature

Inhalt:
It's December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless - unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who's been selling drugs to seventh graders, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate.