description: Stretching from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of globalized greed, The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for a new century--a comic, tragic masterpiece of an American family breaking down in an age of easy fixes.
language: English
title: The Corrections
titlecomplete: The Corrections
characters: Brian Callahan, Enid Lambert, Julia Vrais, Denise Lambert, Alfred Lambert, Sylvia Wroth, Chip Lambert, Gary Lambert, Robin Passafaro
genres: Fiction, Family, American, The United States Of America, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Unfinished
ratings_count: 179341
places: St. Jude, Illinois, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Audie Award
category: Fiction, Abridged, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux