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Title	:	The Corrections
Author	:	Jonathan Franzen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 653 pages
Published	:	September 2nd 2002 by Fourth Estate Paperbacks (first published September 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Novels

The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

Paperback | Pages: 653 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 151160 Users | 9122 Reviews

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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. Enid, who loves to have fun, can still look forward to a final family Christmas and to the ten-day Nordic Pleasurelines Luxury Fall Color Cruise that she and Alfred are about to embark on. But even these few remaining joys are threatened by her husband's growing confusion and unsteadiness. As Alfred enters his final decline, the Lamberts must face the failures, secrets, and long-buried hurts that haunt them as a family if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs.

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Original Title:	The Corrections
ISBN:	1841156736 (ISBN13: 9781841156736)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Alfred Lambert, Enid Lambert, Gary Lambert
Setting:	St. Jude, Illinois(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2002), National Book Award for Fiction (2001), James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (2002), PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2002), Audie Award for Fiction, Abridged (2002) National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2001), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2003)

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Imagine owning a bonsai tree and snipping, cutting, making small corrections from the plants growth, guiding it and making it become what you want it to be. Imagine an engineer with a sharpened pencil making schematics and rigidly following mathematical, precise principles, forming a design that fits a specific purpose and allows for only infinitesimal error.But these ways of making corrections are not ways to deal with humans, this is not how people exist, there are no hard fast rules, no black

My first Franzen. Really I don't even know how to start this review. I could begin, I suppose, by discussing the pure perfection of his writing. It is REALLY DAMN GOOD. If I could break reviews down into little sections, he'd get 10 stars for his style/technique. Excellent. On the other hand, I can't give this a full 5 stars. Or can I? Yeah, it was well written. The depth of the characters and the storyline maybe just a hair short of phenomenal. ??? Yet...Why do I bother with fiction? I feel

From start to finish on my third time through this book - my first experiencing it through text and not audio I was struck anew at not only the bleak, hilarious story it tells but at the beauty of the writing, at the way Franzen knows how to turn a phrase. One thing I kind of noticed on my own but had my eye made more aware of by a New York Times review of the book was how meta-fictive the book is. The Times or whatever publication it was I found on the internet as I obsessed over this book

Franzens writing is impeccable. Not only does his understanding of complex, familial relationships fascinate me, but his ability to capture these charactersall five of them, I might addwith such depth...I think that is what really drew me in as a reader. I mean, these are people who are so flawed emotionally and so utterly selfish inherently, and yet each of them has this capacity for loving one another even while recognizing their inability to stand each other for more than five minutes at a

On the other hand, there are IMPULSIVELY READABLE works of fiction. The much appreciated "The Corrections" is a prime example of what can occur if all you do is describe members of a family (it is not even all that dysfunctional--which is why the pathos is all too real). The Lamberts have a fallen patriarch, a mother who is on the verge of being taken under by her spouse (in other words, she's The Mother), a sibling who cares too much, another one too little, & a younger sister who may be a

JONATHAN FRANZEN'S TOP TEN RULES FOR WRITERS (as given to The Guardian on 20 Feb 2010)with additional commenty comments by me :1. The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.Hmm, well, maybe. I can't think Hugh Selby had very friendly thoughts when he wrote his brilliant Last Exit to Brooklyn, it reads like he wants to shove all of us into a landfill site and have done with the human race. But quite often that's a good attitude for a writer to have. Some books you walk around and

An open letter to my former copy of The Corrections:First I want to tell you that it isnt you, its me. People and books grow apart just like people and people grow apart. I remember years ago when I read you that there were certain things about you that I really liked; but the truth is, I just wasnt really that into you. Yeah, that little stunt with Oprah was pretty cute, and I recall we had a laugh, but Im just at that point in my life where I need to make space for new experiences open