The guiding principle of Martin’s personality, the sum of his interior existence, was the desire to be left alone. If all those years he’d sought attention, even novelty, and if he still relished them, then that was because attention proved him different and solitude begins in difference.
Jonathan FranzenAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: american
- Born: August 17, 1959
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