Because, essentially, it is just a chapter break.īut that’s the end, and you’ll start this book at the beginning.
Knowing that helped me to understand the end of this novel, which feels less like a conclusion and more like a chapter break. I came across that piece of information before I finished the novel but after I was well into it. “This included The Lord of the Rings and Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy.” Readers will get a glimpse of Franzen’s first foray into multi-volume storytelling on Octothat’s when Crossroads is set for release.Something I wasn’t aware of when I read this book (I’m not quite sure how I missed it) but other potential readers may want to know – this book is meant to be the first in a trilogy. “Everything I loved as a young person I read three or four times,” he told Entertainment Weekly in 2013. The description also offers a sense of what to expect from the trilogy as a whole: “By turns comic and harrowing, a tour-de-force of interwoven perspectives and sustained suspense, Crossroads is the first volume of a trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, that will span three generations and trace the inner life of our culture through the present day. “įranzen has spoken about his own fondness for trilogies as a reader. Temple has written a longer breakdown of the announcement on Literary Hub, including the information that the trilogy’s title might be an homage to George Eliot’s Middlemarch.įranzen’s publisher has provided some information on the book, including the fact that Crossroads follows a Chicago-area family dealing with crises personal and societal in 1971. 2oyi3iiqZF - Emily Temple November 12, 2020
Maybe he IS the leading novelist of his generation.
Looks like Jonathan Franzen has finally completed Casaubon's Key to All Mythologies, letting Dodo off the hook.
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