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Patty and Walter Berglund were the pioneers of old St. Paul―the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant garde of the Whole Foods generation. But now, in the new millennium, they have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door?
Titulli: Freedom
Origjinali: Freedom
Gjinia: Roman
Autori: Jonathan Franzen
Shtëpia botuese: Fourth Estate
Viti: 2010
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Pesha: 0.751 kg
ISBN: 978-0-00-731852-0
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Patty and Walter Berglund were the pioneers of old St. Paul―the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant garde of the Whole Foods generation. But now, in the new millennium, they have become a mystery. Why has their teenage son moved in with the aggressively Republican family next door?
