"The muddy confluence of dissipating counterculture and disintegrating liberal religion, fixed in Chicagoland’s forbidding atmosphere, turns out to be the ideal site to summon God and Satan as supporting characters."
"The muddy confluence of dissipating counterculture and disintegrating liberal religion, fixed in Chicagoland’s forbidding atmosphere, turns out to be the ideal site to summon God and Satan as supporting characters."
"Crossroads is Franzen’s greatest and most perfect novel to date, but more importantly, it is his most promising: an inexhaustible resource for future novels, and not only his own."
"Crossroads is Franzen’s greatest and most perfect novel to date, but more importantly, it is his most promising: an inexhaustible resource for future novels, and not only his own."