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Set over the course of five decades, this novel is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they're together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they've lost with humour and rage. But when at last they're forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother...
3) Freedom
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In his first novel since "The Corrections", Jonathan Franzen delivers a powerful epic of contemporary love and marriage. "Freedom" comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty - the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire, charting the mistakes and joys of intensely realized characters as they struggle to learn how to live in an ever more confusing...
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"Barbados, 1962. Lost soul Iapetus roams the island, scared and alone, driven mad after witnessing his father's death at the hands of his mother and older brother, Cronus. Just before Iapetus is lost forever, he has a son, but the baby is not enough to save him from himself--or his family's secrets. Seventeen years later, Iapetus's son, the stoic Atlas, lives in a loveless house under the care of his uncle Cronus, and in the shadow of his charismatic...
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