How to be alone
Subtitle: essays
By: Jonathan Franzen.
Edition: 1st Picador ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Picador
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780312422165
Copyright date: 2002
Description: Earlier versions of most of these essays first appeared in Details, Graywolf Forum, Harper's, and The New Yorker. The essay "Mr. Difficult" has been added to this paperback edition, and the essay "Scavenging" has been modified.
Notes: Revised and expanded to include the recent essay "Mr. Difficult".
Table of contents: label: A word about this book
title: 3; label: My father's brain
title: 7; label: Imperial bedroom
title: 39; label: Why bother?
title: 55; label: Lost in the mail
title: 98; label: Erika imports
title: 139; label: Sifting the ashes
title: 143; label: The reader in exile
title: 164; label: First city
title: 179; label: Scavenging
title: 195; label: Control units
title: 207; label: Mr. Difficult
title: 238; label: Books in bed
title: 270; label: Meet me in St. Louis
title: 286; label: Inauguration Day, January 2001
title: 303