The Twenty-Seventh City

The Twenty-Seventh City

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name = The Twenty-Seventh City
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = Jonathan Franzen
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cover_artist = Jacket design by Fred Marcellino
country = United States
language = English
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genre =
publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux
release_date = September 1, 1988
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback and Paperback)
pages = 517 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 0-374-27972-1 (first edition, hardback)
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"The Twenty-Seventh City" is a 1988 novel by Jonathan Franzen, his first. The story of the Probst family's unraveling is set among intricate political conspiracy and financial upheaval in 20th century St. Louis, Missouri.


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