{"product_id":"the-end-of-the-end-of-the-earth-essays-paperback","title":"The End of the End of the Earth: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJonathan Franzen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eFreedom\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Corrections\u003c\/i\u003e--now with a new epilogue\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like \"a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them.\" For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk-taking essayist. Now, at a moment when technology has inflamed tribal hatreds and the planet is beset by unnatural calamities, he is back with a new collection of essays that recall us to more humane ways of being in the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFranzen's great loves are literature and birds, and \u003ci\u003eThe End of the End of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a passionate argument for both. Where the new media tend to confirm one's prejudices, he writes, literature \"invites you to ask whether you might be somewhat wrong, maybe even entirely wrong, and to imagine why someone else might hate you.\" Whatever his subject, Franzen's essays are always skeptical of received opinion, steeped in irony, and frank about his own failings. He's frank about birds, too (they kill \"everything imaginable\"), but his reporting and reflections on them--on seabirds in New Zealand, warblers in East Africa, penguins in Antarctica--are both a moving celebration of their beauty and resilience and a call to action to save what we love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCalm, poignant, carefully argued, full of wit, \u003ci\u003eThe End of the End of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e provides a welcome breath of hope and reason.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Franzen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of novels such as \u003ci\u003eThe Corrections\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eFreedom\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), and \u003ci\u003eCrossroads\u003c\/i\u003e (2021), and works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eFarther Away\u003c\/i\u003e (2012) and \u003ci\u003eThe End of the End of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 31, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984100458797,"sku":"9781250234896","price":18.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/rTIgExz1W49781250234896.webp?v=1776081948","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-end-of-the-end-of-the-earth-essays-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}