id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4341 Jonathan Franzen - Wikipedia .html text/html 8309 1110 73 His 2001 novel The Corrections, a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Oprah Winfrey's book club selection in 2001 of The Corrections led to a much publicized feud with the talk show host.[5] In recent years, Franzen has become recognized for his opinions on everything from social networking services such as Twitter ("What happens to the people who want to communicate in depth, individual to individual, in the quiet and permanence of the printed word?";[6] "the actual substance of our daily lives is total electronic distraction"[7]) to the impermanence of e-books ("All the real things, the authentic things, the honest things, are dying off")[8][9] and the self-destruction of America.[10] On November 17, 2014, The New York Times Artsbeat Blog reported that the novel, titled Purity, would be out in September.[46] Jonathan Galassi, president and publisher of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, described Purity as a multigenerational American epic that spans decades and continents. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4341.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4341.txt