Twenty-Seventh City
25th Anniversary Edition
Picador Modern Classics
Published in 1988, Jonathan Franzen''s The Twenty-Seventh City is the debut novel of a writer who would come to define our times.
St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city''s leading citi...
25th Anniversary Edition
Picador Modern Classics
Published in 1988, Jonathan Franzen''s The Twenty-Seventh City is the debut novel of a writer who would come to define our times.
St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city''s leading citi...
