by Cindy | Oct 11, 2010 | Fiction
Rating: Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2010), 562 pages. Much like my favorite story-tellers of the 19th century (Tolstoy, Flaubert, Austen, the Brontes) Franzen begins his novels with the description of a family, and then simply...
by Donna | Oct 3, 2009 | Fiction
Rating: Pharmakon…or the Story of a Happy Family, by Dirk Wittenborn. Penguin Books (2008), 404 pages. The father in this novel is a psychology professor at Yale who has determined that his route to fame and fortune will be his invention of a pill to cure...