Crossroads: A Key to All Mythologies, Volume 1 (A Key to All Mythologies, #1)

Name: Crossroads
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by Jonathan Franzen

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Crossroads: A Key to All Mythologies, Volume 1 (A Key to All Mythologies, #1)

by Jonathan Franzen

1 rating • 1 review • 4 shelved

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ISBN10 0374181179
ISBN13 9780374181178
Publish Date 5 October 2021
Publish Status Active
Imprint Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Format Hardcover
Pages 592
Language English

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It is an imperfect novel that is nonetheless a great one. There is a surprising tenderness to this novel. This is a big, ambitious novel that aims to say big, ambitious things about America and the church and familial power dynamics about what happens to families and countries after the patriarch has been deposed, about how we strive to be good and whether we ever can be. But it is also interested in the possibility of redemption after a great sin...or a great humiliation.

It also has one of the great scenes I have ever read, a moment when some inner gear shifts dramatically upward and we are delivered into a stretch of literature transcendent in its wonderfulness.