5/20/2023 0 Comments Holy land by dj waldie![]() ![]() In fact, Walter and Patty Berglund are described as "young pioneers" of urban gentrification in St. If you judged by American literature, mere are no happy people in the suburbs, and certainly no fulfilled ones.įrom this commentary and from many other reviews like it, one might conclude that Freedom's protagonists live in the oft-vilified suburbs. This message caught on (it's flattering to writers and other dissidents), and it became die basis of nearly every depiction of small-town and suburban America since. Sometime long ago, a writer by die side of Waiden Pond decided that middle-class Americans may seem happy and successful on the outside, but deep down they are leading lives of quiet desperation. ![]() ![]() In a much-commented-upon 20 September 2010 op-ed in The New York Times, David Brooks criticized Jonatiian Franzen's new novel Freedom for remaining "trapped" in the American literary "orthodoxy" that suburban life is devoid of any meaningful spirituality: ![]()
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