![]() ![]() Its 580 gripping pages are set in 1971 and track the once morally cohesive but suddenly splintering lives of Russ Hildebrandt, a minister, and his very white, very middle-class, very Middle American family. Do we need to hear any more about white people? Well, it depends on how the story is told.”Ĭrossroads is told very well. “If I started thinking about what angry people are going to say,” Franzen adds, “I would never write anything. ![]() He’s just published Crossroads, his sixth novel and eleventh book, and it’s already controversial. The best-selling, critically admired and endlessly berated writer is now 62 years old. “I write what I can write, and I happen to have a white middle class experience of the world,” Jonathan Franzen, the American novelist, is saying over the telephone. ![]()
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