Freedom Av Jonathan Franzen

<p><b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b><b> ¿ </b><b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR </b><b> ¿ </b><b>Winner of the John Gardner Fiction Award </b><b> ¿ </b><b>A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist </b><b> ¿ </b><b>A <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize Finalist</b><br><br><b><i>Freedom</i></b><b>, by <i>New York Times-</i>bestselling author Jonathan Franzen, the author of <i>Crossroads</i>, is a masterly novel of contemporary love and marriage, a brilliant charting of the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, and the heavy weight of empire</b>.<br><br>Patty and Walter Berglund were the pioneers of old St. Paul¿the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant garde of the Whole Foods generation. But now, in the new millennium, they have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door? Why has Walter, once an