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The Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen

The Twenty-Seventh City (Bestselling Backlist) BY Jonathan Franzen. Picador. Paperback, 528 pages. $17.
The cover of The Twenty-Seventh City (Bestselling Backlist)

"Jonathan Franzen's first novel was terrible," writes Parul Seghal at Slate, but it is also a reminder that "great art seems to be born from what is narrow, obsessional, and repetitive in us."