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Sinopse

Jonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.

It’s December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless—unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem’s sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who’s been selling drugs to seventh graders, has resolved to…

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Autor

Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen nasceu em 1959 no Illinois e vive em Nova Iorque. É autor de quatro romances: The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), Correcções (2001) e Freedom (2010); e de duas obras de não-ficção: How to Be Alone (2002) e The Discomfort Zone (2006). Foi considerado pela Granta e pelo The New Yorker como um dos melhores romancistas norte-americanos com menos de quarenta anos. Poucas obras conseguiram um…

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