The Corrections
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: erratum slip laid in
At the heart of Jonathan Franzen's monumental The Corrections lies a single, desperate wish — Enid Lambert's fervent desire to gather her fractured family together for one last Christmas in the Midwest, a wish that sets in motion a searingly intimate portrait of American domestic life at the turn of the millennium. The three Lambert children — Gary, a depressed Philadelphia banker; Chip, a disgraced academic fleeing to Lithuania; and Denise, a celebrated chef navigating a ruinous affair — are each orbiting their own crises while their father, Alfred, succumbs to the advancing fog of Parkinson's disease and dementia. Franzen constructs this multi-generational saga with the precision of a surgeon and the empathy of a poet, weaving together suburban anxiety, corporate greed, pharmaceutical culture, and the slow erosion of the American Dream into a narrative of staggering scope and emotional force. Winner of the 2001 National Book Award, The Corrections stands as one of the defining novels of its era, a work that chronicles the collision between individual longing and systemic dysfunction with devastating clarity. Franzen's prose is at once satirically sharp and profoundly tender — capable of skewering the hollow promises of late capitalism in one breath and rendering a son's grief over his father's decline in the next. Drawing comparisons to Tolstoy and DeLillo, this is a novel that argues, compellingly and unforgettably, that the most turbulent corrections of all are the ones we make — or fail to make — within ourselves.
Author: Jonathan Franzen
Format: Hardback
Published: 2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: erratum slip laid in
At the heart of Jonathan Franzen's monumental The Corrections lies a single, desperate wish — Enid Lambert's fervent desire to gather her fractured family together for one last Christmas in the Midwest, a wish that sets in motion a searingly intimate portrait of American domestic life at the turn of the millennium. The three Lambert children — Gary, a depressed Philadelphia banker; Chip, a disgraced academic fleeing to Lithuania; and Denise, a celebrated chef navigating a ruinous affair — are each orbiting their own crises while their father, Alfred, succumbs to the advancing fog of Parkinson's disease and dementia. Franzen constructs this multi-generational saga with the precision of a surgeon and the empathy of a poet, weaving together suburban anxiety, corporate greed, pharmaceutical culture, and the slow erosion of the American Dream into a narrative of staggering scope and emotional force. Winner of the 2001 National Book Award, The Corrections stands as one of the defining novels of its era, a work that chronicles the collision between individual longing and systemic dysfunction with devastating clarity. Franzen's prose is at once satirically sharp and profoundly tender — capable of skewering the hollow promises of late capitalism in one breath and rendering a son's grief over his father's decline in the next. Drawing comparisons to Tolstoy and DeLillo, this is a novel that argues, compellingly and unforgettably, that the most turbulent corrections of all are the ones we make — or fail to make — within ourselves.