04010cam a2200649 4500 535933122 TxAuBib 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781250300515 1250300517 e3185160-0c96-4904-846d-1e2fc613114b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3788113 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Franzen, Jonathan. The End of the End of the Earth [Libby] : Essays. Macmillan Audio, 2018. books on tape. Literary Criticism. cultural criticism. American Authors. audiobooks. Literary essays. audio books. nonfiction essays. Personal Writing. contemporary literature. literary autobiography. collection of essays. literary nonfiction. award winning authors. bestselling authors. essay book. autobiographical writing. essay collections. book of essays. financial times best books of the year. best books of 2018. best essays. books of essays. great essays. non fiction essays. intellectual autobiography. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 177MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 177MB. Biography & Autobiography. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of <i>Freedom</i> and <i>The Corrections</i></p> <p>The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like "a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them." For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk-taking essayist. Now, at a moment when technology has inflamed tribal hatreds and the planet is beset by unnatural calamities, he is back with a new collection of essays that recall us to more humane ways of being in the world.</p> <p>Franzen's great loves are literature and birds, and <i>The End of the End of the Earth</i> is a passionate argument for both. Where the new media tend to confirm one's prejudices, he writes, literature "invites you to ask whether you might be somewhat wrong, maybe even entirely wrong, and to imagine why someone else might hate you." Whatever his subject, Franzen's essays are always skeptical of received opinion, steeped in irony, and frank about his own failings. He's frank about birds, too (they kill "everything imaginable"), but his reporting and reflections on them—on seabirds in New Zealand, warblers in East Africa, penguins in Antarctica—are both a moving celebration of their beauty and resilience and a call to action to save what we love.</p> <p>Calm, poignant, carefully argued, full of wit, <i>The End of the End of the Earth</i> provides a welcome breath of hope and reason.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-17 20:00:03. Petkoff, Robert. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/3788113-TheEndOfTheEndOfTheEarth.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e3185160-0c96-4904-846d-1e2fc613114b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1493-1/3788113-TheEndOfTheEndOfTheEarth.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e3185160-0c96-4904-846d-1e2fc613114b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) TXLVP