The Twenty-Seventh City
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<P><B>25th Anniversary Edition <BR>Picador Modern Classics <BR><BR></B>Published in 1988, Jonathan Franzen's <I>The Twenty-Seventh City</I> is the debut novel of a writer who would come to define our times. </P><P> </P><P>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 citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. Set in mid-1980s, <I>The Twenty-Seventh City</I> predicts every unsettling shift in American life for the next two decades: suburban malaise, surveillance culture, domestic terrorism, paranoia. A classic of contemporary fiction, <I>The Twenty-Seventh City</I> shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.</P><P>
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