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Number 1 National BestsellerWinner of the John Gardner Fiction AwardA National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA L A Times Book Prize FinalistIn his first novel because The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen has provided us an epic of modern love and relationship. Independence comically and tragically catches the problems and cravings of independence: the thrills of adolescent lust, the compromises of middle-age, the earnings of suburban sprawl, the heavy-weight of kingdom. In planning the errors and delights of Patty and Walt Berglund because they find it difficult to learn to reside in an ever-more complicated globe, Franzen has created a profoundly moving and marked picture of our time.