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The Corrections : A Novel by Jonathan Franzen (2002, Trade Paperback)

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Very good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
Type
Novel
Narrative Type
Fiction
Original Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Intended Audience
Adults, Young Adults
ISBN
9780312421274

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
0312421273
ISBN-13
9780312421274
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2327395

Product Key Features

Book Title
Corrections : a Novel
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, Literary
Publication Year
2002
Genre
Fiction
Author
Jonathan Franzen
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-033478
Reviews
"You will laugh, wince, groan, weep, leave the table and maybe the country, promise never to go home again, and be reminded of why you read serious fiction in the first place."-- The New York Review of Books "Marvelous . . . Everything we want in a novel--except, when it's rocking along, for it never to be over."-- The New York Times Book Review "Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture--our culture."--Don DeLillo "Looms as a model for what ambitious storytelling can still say about modern life . . . Franzen swings for the fences and clears them with yards to spare."-- San Francisco Chronicle "The novel we've been waiting for...a stunning anatomy of family dysfunction...a contemporary novel that will endure."-- Esquire "In its complexity, its scrutinizing and utterly unsentimental humanity, and its grasp of the subtle relationships between domestic drama and global events....It is a major accomplishment."--Michael Cunningham "Frighteningly, luminously authentic."-- The Boston Globe "A genuine masterpiece . . . This novel is a wisecracking, eloquent, heartbreaking beauty."-- Elle "The brightest, boldest, and most ambitious novel I've read in many years."--Pat Conroy "Brilliant . . . Almost unbearably lifelike."-- The New York Observer "Funny and deeply sad, large-hearted and merciless, The Corrections is a testament to the range and depth of pleasures great fiction affords."--David Foster Wallace "This is a spellbinding novel . . . that is both funny and piercing."-- People, Looms as a model for what ambitious storytelling can still say about modern life . . . Franzen swings for the fences and clears them with yards to spare., You will laugh, wince, groan, weep, leave the table and maybe the country, promise never to go home again, and be reminded of why you read serious fiction in the first place., The novel we've been waiting for...a stunning anatomy of family dysfunction...a contemporary novel that will endure., Marvelous . . . Everything we want in a novel--except, when it's rocking along, for it never to be over., "You will laugh, wince, groan, weep, leave the table and maybe the country, promise never to go home again, and be reminded of why you read serious fiction in the first place."--The New York Review of Books "Marvelous . . . Everything we want in a novel--except, when it's rocking along, for it never to be over."--The New York Times Book Review "Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture--our culture."--Don DeLillo "Looms as a model for what ambitious storytelling can still say about modern life . . . Franzen swings for the fences and clears them with yards to spare."--San Francisco Chronicle "The novel we've been waiting for...a stunning anatomy of family dysfunction...a contemporary novel that will endure."--Esquire "In its complexity, its scrutinizing and utterly unsentimental humanity, and its grasp of the subtle relationships between domestic drama and global events....It is a major accomplishment."--Michael Cunningham "Frighteningly, luminously authentic."--The Boston Globe "A genuine masterpiece . . . This novel is a wisecracking, eloquent, heartbreaking beauty."--Elle "The brightest, boldest, and most ambitious novel I've read in many years."--Pat Conroy "Brilliant . . . Almost unbearably lifelike."--The New York Observer "Funny and deeply sad, large-hearted and merciless,The Correctionsis a testament to the range and depth of pleasures great fiction affords."--David Foster Wallace "This is a spellbinding novel . . . that is both funny and piercing."--People, In its complexity, its scrutinizing and utterly unsentimental humanity, and its grasp of the subtle relationships between domestic drama and global events....It is a major accomplishment., "You will laugh, wince, groan, weep, leave the table and maybe the country, promise never to go home again, and be reminded of why you read serious fiction in the first place." -- The New York Review of Books "Marvelous . . . Everything we want in a novel--except, when it's rocking along, for it never to be over." -- The New York Times Book Review "Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture--our culture." -- Don DeLillo "Looms as a model for what ambitious storytelling can still say about modern life . . . Franzen swings for the fences and clears them with yards to spare." -- San Francisco Chronicle "The novel we've been waiting for...a stunning anatomy of family dysfunction...a contemporary novel that will endure." -- Esquire "In its complexity, its scrutinizing and utterly unsentimental humanity, and its grasp of the subtle relationships between domestic drama and global events....It is a major accomplishment." -- Michael Cunningham "Frighteningly, luminously authentic." -- The Boston Globe "A genuine masterpiece . . . This novel is a wisecracking, eloquent, heartbreaking beauty." -- Elle "The brightest, boldest, and most ambitious novel I've read in many years." -- Pat Conroy "Brilliant . . . Almost unbearably lifelike." -- The New York Observer "Funny and deeply sad, large-hearted and merciless, The Corrections is a testament to the range and depth of pleasures great fiction affords." -- David Foster Wallace "This is a spellbinding novel . . . that is both funny and piercing." -- People, Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture--our culture., Funny and deeply sad, large-hearted and merciless, The Corrections is a testament to the range and depth of pleasures great fiction affords.
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
#1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER "A spellbinding novel" ( People ) from the New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections is a comic, tragic epic of worlds colliding: an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions, a new world 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 Lambert 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 their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself that, despite certain alarming indicators, he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man--or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home., Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an 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. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul., Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert 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 their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man-or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home.
LC Classification Number
PS3556.R352 C67 2001

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