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Crossroads

A Novel

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Crossroads

Auteur(s): Jonathan Franzen
Narrateur(s): David Pittu
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 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The highly anticipated new novel from one of our greatest living writers.

It's December 23, 1971, and the Hildebrandt family is at a crossroads. The patriarch, Russ, the associate pastor of a suburban Chicago church, is poised to break free of a marriage he finds joyless--unless his brilliant and unstable wife, Marion, breaks free of it first. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college afire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem's sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has veered into the era's counterculture, while their younger brother Perry, fed up with selling pot to support his drug habit, has firmly resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate.

Universally recognized as the leading novelist of his generation, Jonathan Franzen is often described as a teller of family stories. Only now, though, in Crossroads, has he given us a novel in which a family, in all the intricacy of its workings, is truly at the centre.

By turns comic and harrowing, a tour-de-force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, Crossroads is the first volume of a trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, that will span three generations and trace the inner life of our culture through the present day. Complete in itself, set in a historical moment of moral crisis, and reaching back to the early twentieth century, Crossroads serves as a foundation for a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family navigates the political, intellectual and social crosscurrents of the past fifty years.

Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads. Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique Récits initiatiques Mariage
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I enjoyed everything about this book, and found myself listening almost incessantly. The family member characters find themselves exposed for who they truly are, for the first time. Brilliantly written, smarts-kind of funny, and highly entertaining.

I often find that a narrator’s voice detracts from the written story, David Pittu’s voice lived so well in every character, well done!

A typically untold but familiar story that exposes who we really are

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I read the novel and listened to it at the same time. It is long. 600 pages and everything is beautiful. There were No unnecessary boring fillers to lengthen the book. I particularly loved the wonderful character development.
The narrator did a good job. He did not overdramatize by raising and lowering his voice, thereby making it easy for me to understand him. I am a cochlear implant user and listen to audiobooks to practice listening with the device. It was so nice to be able to close my eyes, rest them and listen to the story.
Loved the book and looking for to the sequel.

Crossroads

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I finished this book hoping that somewhere a character would become someone you care about. Nope. All self-centred and loathsome in their own way. It seems to be Jonathan Franzen’s thing that all of characters are weak, self-centred mediocrities, whose lives amount to nothing. This might be interesting set against some dramatic events. But no, his books are about as exciting as watching laundry dry. The only mystery here, to me, is why he’s considered such a big deal.

Waste of time

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It was hard to care about any of these characters or what they did. Details here would be superfluous. You've been warned.

ho hum characters in a long ho hum plot

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