num_pages: 528
description: A riveting work of suspense, an eerie fable of political life, a love story - this first novel by Jonathan Franzen, published to wide acclaim in 1988, is a sweeping and imaginative look at America in the twentieth century.
language: English
title: The Twenty-Seventh City
titlecomplete: The Twenty-Seventh City
characters: General Norris, Martin Probst, Duane Thompson, S. Jammu
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Roman, Contemporary, Adult, Unfinished, Novels, American, Mystery
ratings_count: 4902
places: St. Louis, Missouri
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux