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Faith and family with Jonathan Franzen on Crossroads

The Book Show

English - October 03, 2021 23:05 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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“I admit to regular fits of feeling simply I am not a good person,” says Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections, “and it’s a question that fiction is uniquely poised to engage with”. And it’s a question that is at the heart of his new novel Crossroads.

Also, Maggie Shipstead on her Booker Prize shortlisted novel Great Circle, and Robert Gott’s historical crime novel, The Orchard Murders, based on the Messiah of Nunawading.