Freedom
Written by: | Jonathan Franzen |
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First published: | August 31, 2010 |
Freedom is a 2010 novel by Jonathan Franzen. It tells the story of Patty and Walter Berglund, the parents of a liberal, nuclear Midwestern family that appears to be happy and normal... until their teenaged son, Joey, decides to move out of their home and in with the Republican neighbors.
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Not to be confused with William Safire's novel Freedom, Daniel Suarez's novel Freedom™, any of the half-dozen films named Freedom, or any other work named Freedom.
Tropes used in Freedom include:
- Big Screwed-Up Family: The Berglunds
- Book Within A Book: Patty's autobiography, Mistakes Were Made.
- Doorstopper
- Dysfunction Junction
- Take That: To Ian McEwan's "Atonement."
- Spiritual Successor: Freedom is considered a "cousin" to Franzen's 2001 novel, The Corrections.
- Turn of the Millennium
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