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en-wikipedia-org-9509		The Twenty-Seventh City - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	939	101	67	The Twenty-Seventh City First edition cover The Twenty-Seventh City is Jonathan Franzen's debut novel, published in 1988. In The Los Angeles Times, critic Richard Eder welcomed the book: "Jonathan Franzen has written a novel of our times; so imaginatively and expansively of our times, that it seems ahead of them."[1] In The New York Times, American Heritage contributing editor Peter Andrews wrote, "Make no mistake about it, The Twenty-Seventh City is an impressive debut by a gifted young writer... It's a riveting piece of fiction that lingers in the mind."[2] Reviewing the author's second novel Strong Motion, critic Laura Shapiro at Newsweek discussed The Twenty-Seventh City's "brilliance" and Franzen's "prodigious gifts"; she described the novel as "a huge and masterly drama of St. Louis under siege, gripping and surreal and overwhelmingly convincing," concluding, "The news that he is at work on a third [novel] is welcome indeed."[3]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9509.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9509.txt