Farther Away is a 2012 collection of essays by the American writer Jonathan Franzen .
6-459: Farther Away may refer to: Farther Away (book) , a 2012 essay collection by Jonathan Franzen "Farther Way" (song) , a song by Evanescence from Anywhere but Home See also [ edit ] Alejandro Selkirk Island , previously known as Más Afuera (Farther Away), a Chilean island Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
12-479: The book received a [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] (3.5 out of 5) based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "Franzen's crisp, incisive prose, frankness, and engaging sense of humor make Farther Away standard Franzen fare". In The New York Times Book Review , the essayist Phillip Lopate wrote that the pieces "demonstrate [Franzen's] generosity, humanity and love of fiction, as well as his own preference for
18-486: The essays previously appeared in The New Yorker , The New York Times , The Guardian , and others. Culture Critic assessed critical response as an aggregated score of 80%, while The BookScore assessed it at an aggregated critic score of 7.3/10 based on an accumulation of British and American press reviews. On July/Aug 2012 issue of Bookmarks Magazine , a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books,
24-535: The morally complex over the sentimental. The struggle to be a good human being, against the pulls of solipsism and narcissism , can be glimpsed in every page of these essays, which if nothing else offer a telling battle report from within the consciousness of one of our major novelists." In the English newspaper The Guardian , writer and critic Geoff Dyer found advances over Franzen's previous essay collection, How to Be Alone : "Franzen seems more gregarious than he
30-469: The title Farther Away . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Farther_Away&oldid=565064626 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Farther Away (book) Most of
36-518: Was in How to be Alone ...These essays are exemplary instances of reader-friendly criticism in that they can be studied profitably even by people unfamiliar with the works in question. They also display [a] related side-effect of becoming a great novelist. That the great novelist is, by default, a great reader...One way or another, the essays in Farther Away are attempts to enlarge the place where literature, and
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