
Crossroads
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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David Pittu
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By:
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Jonathan Franzen
"Narrator David Pittu superbly transports the listener into the lives of the Hildebrandts, a family with many secrets." - AudioFile Magazine
This program includes a bonus conversation between the author, Jonathan Franzen, and the narrator, David Pittu.
Jonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.
It’s December 23, 1971, and heavy weather is forecast for Chicago. Russ Hildebrandt, the associate pastor of a liberal suburban church, is on the brink of breaking free of a marriage he finds joyless—unless his wife, Marion, who has her own secret life, beats him to it. Their eldest child, Clem, is coming home from college on fire with moral absolutism, having taken an action that will shatter his father. Clem’s sister, Becky, long the social queen of her high-school class, has sharply veered into the counterculture, while their brilliant younger brother Perry, who’s been selling drugs to seventh graders, has resolved to be a better person. Each of the Hildebrandts seeks a freedom that each of the others threatens to complicate.
Jonathan Franzen’s novels are celebrated for their unforgettably vivid characters and for their keen-eyed take on contemporary America. Now, in Crossroads, Franzen ventures back into the past and explores the history of two generations. With characteristic humor and complexity, and with even greater warmth, he conjures a world that resonates powerfully with our own.
A tour de force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, its action largely unfolding on a single winter day, Crossroads is the story of a Midwestern family at a pivotal moment of moral crisis. Jonathan Franzen’s gift for melding the small picture and the big picture has never been more dazzlingly evident.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The male narrator is bad at female voices
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This is a return to a Midwestern Family Saga
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None of these characters are likable. That’s not really the point, though.
This is the sort of novel where it seems better to avoid discussing plot as everything spools out gradually and would seem melodramatic if ticked off.
The performance was painful. The reader could not do women’s voices except in a creepy, breathy manner. All of the female characters felt off because of this. Were it not such a developed character study w several engaging male characters, this would have ruined the book. I listened to the interview that included Franzen and Pittu at the end and believe Franzen threw some shade.
Enthralled by the story, underwhelmed by the reader
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The narration in a nutshell:
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Overrated
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Masterpiece
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Ready for next
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Ready for the next installment
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A trip back in time…
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loved it!
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