![]() ![]() More and more often, he doesn't seem to understand a word Enid says. 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. Although she would never admit it to her neighbors or her three grown children, her husband, Alfred, is losing his grip on reality. With The Corrections, Franzen emerges as one of our premier interpreters of American society and the American soul.Įnid Lambert is terribly, terribly anxious. 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. 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. ![]() Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle AwardĪn American Library Association Notable Book Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction ![]()
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