The Twenty-Seventh City - Jonathan Franzen

The Twenty-Seventh City

By: Jonathan Franzen

Paperback | 5 May 2003

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The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen, author of the prize winning and internationally bestselling, ‘The Corrections’.
St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, ‘The Twenty-Seventh City’ shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.
Industry Reviews

* 'A huge and masterly drama...gripping and surreal and overwhelmingly convincing.' Laura Shapiro, Newsweek

* 'A novel so imaginatively and expansively of our times that is seems ahead of them.' Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times

* 'Franzen has managed to put together a suspense story with the elements of a complex, multi-layered psychological novel...A riveting piece of fiction that lingers in the mind long after more conventional pot-boilers have bubbled away.' Peter Andrews, The New York Times Book Review

* `Unsettling and visionary..."The Twenty-Seventh City" is not a novel that can be quickly dismissed or easily forgotten: it has elements of both "Great" and "American"...A book of memorable characters, surprising situations, and provocative ideas.' Washington Post

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