Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award
An American Library Association Notable Book
Jonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections,
is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new
century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that
stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern
Europe in the age of greed and globalism.
Franzen brings an old-time
America of freight trains and civic duty, of Cub Scouts and Christmas
cookies and sexual inhibitions, into brilliant collision with the modern
absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting,
do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and the anti-gravity New Economy. With
The Corrections, Franzen emerges as one of our premier interpreters of American society and the American soul.
Enid
Lambert is terribly, terribly anxious. Although she would never admit
it to her neighbors or her three grown children, her husband, Alfred, is
losing his grip on reality. Maybe it's the medication that Alfred takes
for his Parkinson's disease, or maybe it's his negative attitude, but
he spends his days brooding in the basement and committing shadowy,
unspeakable acts. More and more often, he doesn't seem to understand a
word Enid says.
Trouble is also brewing in the lives of Enid's
children. Her older son, Gary, a banker in Philadelphia, has turned
cruel and materialistic and is trying to force his parents out of their
old house and into a tiny apartment.
The middle child, Chip, has
suddenly and for no good reason quit his exciting job as a professor at
D------ College and moved to New York City, where he seems to be
pursuing a "transgressive" lifestyle and writing some sort of
screenplay.
Meanwhile the baby of the family, Denise, has escaped her
disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of
an affair with a married man--or so Gary hints.
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