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|author=Philip Weinstein
|title=Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage
|rating=3.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=''Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage'' makes frequent mention of Franzen's attendance at Swathmore College in Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1977 and where the author, Philip Weinstein was, until last year Professor of English. An earlier graduate, the novelist James A. Michner left his entire estate of some 10 million dollars to the college and the proceeds from his works, including the one on which ''South Pacific'' was founded. It was at Swarthmore that Franzen met his wife, where she had been a gifted classmate. Weinstein, the author who teaches there, has personally known Franzen for over two decades and the latter has given him a personal interview and been otherwise in contact with him for some considerable time. If this all seems just a little blurred in its boundaries, not to say incestuous, then that might not matter. However, Franzen's work closely concern itself with shame, guilt, incest, rage and humiliation.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501307177</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Adam Sisman
|summary=If Thomas Babington Macaulay is remembered at all today, it is probably for the historical writings to which he devoted himself during the last few years of his life. Yet earlier in his career, he was also a Member of Parliament, a government minister, and served for some years in India, playing a major reforming role as a member of the governor-general’s council.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587025</amazonuk>
}}
