The Twenty-Seventh City

  • The Twenty-Seventh City: A Novel
    The Twenty-Seventh City: A Novel
    By Jonathan Franzen

    S. Jammu, a young, ambitious Indian woman, is sworn in as police chief of St. Louis where the acts of private citizens are monitored and the actions of Martin Probst and his family threatened to destroy her plan

  • The Twenty-Seventh City: A Novel
    The Twenty-Seventh City: A Novel
    By Jonathan Franzen

    “Hear about Bryant Hooper?” Clarence puffed serenely on his cigar. “What about him?” “Got shot in the head,” Clarence said. “Thursday morning.” “Aw, Jesus.” Hooper was a police detective. Drug squad. “Dead?” “No, he'll make it.

  • The Twenty-seventh City
    The Twenty-seventh City
    By Jonathan Franzen

    Dying St. Louis is turned inside-out by the appointment of a charismatic young woman from Bombay as police chief, an act which launches the city's prominent citizens into political conspiracy....

  • The Twenty-Seventh City
    By Jonathan Franzen

    A classic of contemporary fiction, The Twenty-Seventh City shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, and the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.

  • The Twenty-seventh City
    The Twenty-seventh City
    By Jonathan Franzen

    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...