"A masterpiece of American fiction." –The New York Times Book Review
"Mr. Franzen has written his most deeply felt novel yet–a novel that turns out to be both a compelling biography of a dysfunctional family and an indelible portrait of our times." –
The New York Times "A work of total genius." –
New York Magazine "The Great American Novel." –
Esquire "One of the best living American novelists." –
Time "Epic." –
Vanity Fair "Hugely ambitious . . .
Freedom is very, very good." –
USA Today "Brilliant . . . Epic . . . An extraordinary stylist." –
The Washington Post "A surprisingly moving and even hopeful epic." –
NPR "Sweeping and powerful." –
San Francisco Chronicle "Consuming and extraordinarily moving." –
Los Angeles Times "Immense and unforgettable." –
Chicago Tribune "Devastatingly insightful." –
The Miami Herald "A page turner that engages the mind." –
Newsday "It's refreshing to see a novelist who wants to engage the questions of our time in the tradition of 20th-century greats like John Steinbeck and Sinclair Lewis . . . [This] is a book you'll still be thinking about long after you've finished reading it." –
Associated Press "Deeply moving and superbly crafted . . . It's such a full novel, rich in description, broad in its reach and full of wry observations." –
Pittsburg Post-Gazette "His writing is so gorgeous . . . Franzen is one of those exceptional writers whose works define an era and a generation, and his books demand to be read." –
St. Louis Post-Dispatch "A tour de force . . . one of the finest novelists of his generation." –
The Philadelphia Inquirer "A highly readable triumph of conventional realism . . . Addictive." –
The National "The first Great American Novel of the post-Obama era." –
Telegraph (UK) "A literary genius . . . This is simply on a different plane from other contemporary fiction . . .
Freedom is the novel of the year, and the century." –
The Guardian (UK) "A triumph . . . A pleasure to read." –
The New York Observer "Exhilarating . . . Gripping . . . Moving . . . On a level with
The Great Gatsby [and]
Gone With the Wind." –
Bloomberg