PEN/Faulkner Award Winner of the 2001 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.
Enid, who loves to have fun, can st.
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.
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.
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.
Trouble is also brewing in the lives of Enid\'s children.
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.
Enid Lambert is terribly, terribly anxious.
With The Corrections, Franzen emerges as one of our premier interpreters of American society and the American soul.
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.
PEN/Faulkner Award Winner of the 2001 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
