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Daunt Books Children's Short Story Competition 2013

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  Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen

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  Meticulously concise, yet astoundingly wide-ranging, Franzen's non-fiction moves seamlessly from funny diatribes on public phone conversations to meditations on his late friend David Foster Wallace and the rise of the English novel. Hugely authoritative and genuinely insightful.

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  Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

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  Heralded as the book of the century, written by a modern-day Tolstoy, Franzen's much hyped novel is irresistible. Although at times it strikes one as slightly overwritten, it is an enormously ambitious, emotionally complex family saga that perfectly evokes America of the 1990s with some exquisite scene setting. Bravo Franzen for bringing the literary novel back into the limelight at the very least.