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Franzen Freedom Liberal Novel Tolstoy | Franzen Freedom Liberal Novel Tolstoy

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May.23.2011
Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom"--the Liberal as Crank-- and Tolstoy
  Jonathan Franzen’s novel Freedom celebrates the middle class liberal as environmentalist crank in a novel that is a bad imitation of Tolstoy's War and Peace.  The middle section of Franzen's novel were quite entertaining like a good sit com focusing on the triangle of Walter Berglund,...