I’m not sure what the best book of 2010 was, but Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom was easily the most hyped. His sprawling novel of yuppie angst had been hotly anticipated for nine years — ever since Franzen’s previous work, The Corrections, came out to controversy and acclaim in 2001. Weeks before readers could find Freedom in any bookstore, for example, Time magazine had anointed the author a “Great American Novelist.” … Back to Article
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