The Corrections
Edition: 1st edition; Advance Reader's Copy
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2001-05
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9780374919221
Copyright date: 2001
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.

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