FRANZEN, Jonathan.
The Twenty-Seventh City.
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux , 1988.
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"The city is a tapestry woven by the hands of its people, each thread holding an individual story": First Edition of The Twenty-Seventh City; inscribed by Jonathan Franzen in the year of publication
First edition of Jonathan Franzen's debut novel. Octavo, original half-cloth, with a map. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "New York 1 September 88 To Ken Hubner - Appreciate your appreciation! Jonathan Franzen." Fine in fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. Author photograph by Valerie Cornell.
Jonathan Franzen is a prominent American novelist and essayist known for his ambitious, socially engaged fiction that interrogates contemporary American life. The Twenty-Seventh City, his debut novel, is a complex political and psychological thriller that explores themes of urban decay, power, and identity in contemporary America. Set in a fictionalized version of St. Louis, Missouri—once the fourth-largest U.S. city but now ranked twenty-seventh—the novel follows the mysterious appointment of Indian-born S. Jammu as police chief and her manipulative infiltration of local politics and elite circles. Franzen critiques suburban complacency, racial anxiety, and institutional corruption, portraying a city caught between its fading past and uncertain future.
The Twenty-Seventh City.
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