The Corrections
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: 2nd printing
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780312421274
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +; Fiction; Fiction - General; Literary; Fiction / Literary
First sentence: THE MADNESS of an autumn prairie cold front coming through.
Description: A comic, tragic epic stretching from the Midwest of the Midcentury to the Wall Street and Easter Europe of today, The Corrections brings and old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed.

After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately , her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of thierown lives. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on bringing the family together for one last Christmas at home.

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