{"product_id":"2026100008829-secondhand-the-corrections","title":"The Corrections","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: erratum slip laid in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\n\nWinner 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49336811192539,"sku":"2026100008829-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/66d7e763-eddb-4ac0-b9db-cf3580bfb867.png?v=1789958394","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008829-secondhand-the-corrections","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}