The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen, author of the prize winning and internationally bestselling, `The Corrections'.
By the author of the bestseller `The Corrections' and the sensational `Freedom', `The Twenty-Seventh City' is a novel of intrigue, humour and fear. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, `The Twenty-Seventh City' shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American Dream unravelling into terror and dark comedy.
- ISBN10 0374279721
- ISBN13 9780374279721
- Publish Date 1 September 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Farrar Straus Giroux
- Edition Revised ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 528
- Language English