A Study On The Economic Growth And Environmental Injustice In Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom
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Jonathan Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. He was born on 17th August 1959 in Western Springs, Illinois, USA. He is one of the best American novelists. He has written many novels, short stories and articles. His famous novel Freedom was published in 2010. It received similar accolades and an appearance in the cover magazine entitled "The Greatest American Novelist". Franzen's early novel, The Twenty-Seventh City, was published in 1988. Franzen's second novel, Strong Motion, was published in 1992 and focuses on the Hollands, a dysfunctional family. It uses seismic events on the U.S. East Coast as metaphors for earthquakes in family life. According to Franzen, 'This is a system of science and religion - organizations that violently oppose the meaning of the world.' The present paper aims at attempting to study about the portrayal of the economic growth and environmental injustice in Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom.
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