The Madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through.
An edition of The Corrections
(2001)
The Corrections
A Novel
2nd printing
by Jonathan Franzen
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A comic, tragic epic stretching from the Midwest of the Midcentury to the Wall Street and Easter Europe of today, The Corrections brings and 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.
After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid 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 thierown lives. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on bringing the family together for one last Christmas at home.
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dementia, alcoholism, Protestantism, depression, corruption in Lituania, adultery, Christmas, Parent and adult child, Fiction, Married women, Married women in fiction, Parkinson's disease, Parkinson's disease in fiction, Middle West in fiction, Parent and adult child in fiction, National Book Award Winner, award:national_book_award=2001, award:national_book_award=fiction, New York Times bestseller, nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2010-08-29, LGBT, Married women -- Fiction, Patients, Domestic fiction, Parkinson's disease -- Patients -- Fiction, Parent and adult child -- Fiction, Middle West -- Fiction, Older women, Families, Psychology, Christmas stories, Fiction, family life, Married people, fiction, Middle west, fiction, Large type books, Dysfunctional families, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Mujeres casadas, Novela, Parálisis agitante, Pacientes, Padres e hijos, Fiction, family life, general, Familie, Eltern, Lebensplan, Erwachsenes Kind, KritikPlaces
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Die Korrekturen: Roman
2014, Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag
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The Corrections
Mar 16, 2003, Brand: Recorded Books, Recorded Books
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Las Corecciones
September 2003, Planeta Pub Corp
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Las Correcciones / The Corrections
May 2002, Planeta Columbiana
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The corrections
2002, HarperCollins
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The Corrections (Reading Group Guides)
September 2002, Picador USA
Paperback
0312421613 9780312421618
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Las correcciones
2002 April, Editorial Seix Barral
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The corrections
2002, G.K. Hall, Chivers Press, G K Hall & Co, Thorndike Press, Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
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The Corrections
Sep 21, 2002, Harpercollins Pub Ltd, HarperPerennial
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The Corrections
2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The corrections
2001, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Corrections: A Novel
2001, Picador USA
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The Corrections
2001-05, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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in English
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"THE MADNESS of an autumn prairie cold front coming through."
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Like bookends of the past half century, the two generations of the Lambert family represent two very different aspects of America. Alfred, the patriarch, is a distant, puritanical company man; he is also slipping into Parkinson's-induced dementia. His wife, Enid, is a model Midwestern housewife, at once deferential and controlling. Their three children--Gary, an uptight banker, baffled by his own persistent unhappiness; Chip, and ex-professor now failing as a screenwriter; and Denise, and up-and-coming chief in a hot new restaurant--have little time for Enid and Alfred. But when Enid calls for one last Christmas at the family home, the trajectories of five American lifetimes converge.
With this important, profoundly affecting work, Jonathan Franzen confirms his place in the top tier of American novelists. His unique blend of subversive humor and full-blooded realism makes The Corrections a grandly entertaining family saga.
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