num_pages: 567
description: Like bookends of the past half century, the two generations of the Lambert family represent two very different aspects of America. Alfred, the patriarch, is a distant, puritanical company man; he is also slipping into Parkinson's-induced dementia. His wife, Enid, is a model Midwestern housewife, at once deferential and controlling. Their three children--Gary, an uptight banker, baffled by his own persistent unhappiness; Chip, and ex-professor now failing as a screenwriter; and Denise, and up-and-coming chief in a hot new restaurant--have little time for Enid and Alfred. But when Enid calls for one last Christmas at the family home,t he trajectories of five American lifetimes converge.With this important, profoundly affecting work, Jonathan Franzen confirms his place in the top tier of American novelists. His unique blend of subversive humor and full-blooded realism makes The Corrections a grandly entertaining family saga.(back cover)
language: English
title: The Corrections
titlecomplete: The Corrections
characters: Denise Lambert, Brian Callahan, Robin Passafaro, Enid Lambert, Alfred Lambert, Gary Lambert, Julia Vrais, Chip Lambert, Sylvia Wroth
genres: American, Unfinished, The United States Of America, Novels, Family, Audiobook, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 179307
places: New York City, New York, St. Jude, Illinois, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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