The Twenty-Seventh City

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The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen, author of the prize winning and internationally bestselling, The Corrections. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, 'The Twenty-Seventh City' shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.

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/ 'A huge and masterly drama!gripping and surreal and overwhelmingly convincing.' Laura Shapiro, Newsweek / 'A novel so imaginatively and expansively of our times that is seems ahead of them.' Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times / 'Franzen has managed to put together a suspense story with the elements of a complex, multi-layered psychological novel!A riveting piece of fiction that lingers in the mind long after more conventional pot-boilers have bubbled away.' Peter Andrews, The New York Times Book Review / 'Unsettling and visionary!"The Twenty-Seventh City" is not a novel that can be quickly dismissed or easily forgotten: it has elements of both "Great" and "American"!A book of memorable characters, surprising situations, and provocative ideas.' Washington Post

Author Bio

Jonathan Franzen's work includes four novels (The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections, Freedom), two collections of essays (Farther Away, How To Be Alone), a memoir (The Discomfort Zone), and, most recently, The Kraus Project. He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.