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Crossroads

By: Jonathan Franzen
Narrated by: David Pittu
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‘His best novel yet … A Middlemarch-like triumph’ Telegraph‘A pleasure bomb of a novel’ Vogue ‘A true modern master’ Independent

It’s 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh graders. His sister Becky, the once straight-laced high school social queen, has veered into counterculture, while at college, Clem is wrestling with a decision that might tear his family apart. As their parents – Russ, a suburban pastor, and Marion, his restless wife – tug against the bonds of a joyless marriage, Crossroads finds a family, and a nation, struggling to do the right thing.

‘Funny, moving, crackling with life, it has what all great fiction should have’ Financial Times

‘Intoxicating – a luxuriant domestic drama’ Guardian

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GUARDIAN BEST FICTION BOOK OF 2021 • AN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEAR • A LIT HUB BOOK OF THE YEAR

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Fascinating story with an excellent reader. A real treasure with much wisdom of life

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C'est la première fois que je mets autant de temps à terminer une écoute... et j'ai failli abandonner. Aucun souffle, aucun style vraiment séduisant. Ennuyeux.

TROP LONG SANS BEAUCOUP D'INTÉRÊT

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Je n’ai pas vu le temps passer ! Et je voulais ajouter que la lecture est particulièrement remarquable : il y a beaucoup de personnages et ils ont chacun leur voix, sachant que le livre est plein de dialogue… C’est du beau travail.

Un roman absorbant et une lecture pleine de contrastes où chacun a sa voix

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S'il s'agit du tome 1 d'une trilogie, je me passerai de la suite. J'ai adoré tous les bouquins de Franzen jusqu'ici, même "Purity" que la critique avait dézingué. Mais ici on nage dans la série télé. Quant au lecteur, ce n'est qu'en accélérant la vitesse de lecture que j'ai réussi à le supporter: une élocution pâteuse et pompeuse qui dessert encore le bouquin.

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