num_pages: 567
description: The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children - are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is ill and as his condition worsens the whole family must face the failures, secrets and long-buried hurts that haunt them if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs. Stretching from the Midwest in the mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of globalised greed, The Corrections brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty into wild collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and New Economy millionaires. It announces Jonathan Franzen as one of the most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.
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, Literary Fiction, Unfinished, Audiobook
ratings_count: 179307
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: Fourth Estate