Farther Away

The National Book Award–winning author of Freedom presents a “multifaceted and revealing collection” of essays ( The Economist ). In Farther Away , which gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes, both human and literary, that have long preoccupied him. Whether recounting his violent encounter with bird poachers in Cyprus, examining his mixed feelings about the suicide of his friend and rival David Foster Wallace,