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Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when anacquaintance informs him that he would make a "wonderful" husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probability that there is someone for everyone, and he embarks...
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Maggie is fine. She's doing really good, actually. Sure, she's broke, her graduate thesis on something obscure is going nowhere, and her marriage only lasted 608 days, but at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new life as a Surprisingly Young Divorce. Now she has time to take up nine hobbies, eat hamburgers at 4 am, and "get back out there" sex-wise. With the support of her tough-loving academic advisor, Merris; her...
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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