- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2002 · Finalist
The Corrections
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen (born 1959)
English editions
Written in EnglishThe Corrections
Picador · United States · 2021 · Paperback · 576 pages
The Corrections
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · September 2001
The Corrections
Fourth Estate · United Kingdom · 2001 · Hardcover · 576 pages
The Corrections
Harper Perennial · United Kingdom · 2007 · Paperback · 653 pages
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Alfred Lambert, once a stern enforcer of rules, is sliding into dementia brought on by Parkinson's, and his loyal, embittered wife Enid wants nothing more than to gather the family in their Midwestern town of St. Jude for the ideal Christmas. Their children have scattered. Gary, the eldest, battles depression; Denise is opening Philadelphia's most fashionable restaurant; Chip, his confidence crumbling, throws in his lot with a politician from the former Eastern Bloc in Vilnius. As Alfred's illness worsens, the family has to face the secrets, failures and old hurts it has long kept buried. Moving from the mid-century Midwest to Wall Street and Eastern Europe, the story sets an older America of railroads and public duty against an age of new money and do-it-yourself therapy.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Family, Satire (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States, Lithuania
- First published
- 2001 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Author's age
- 42 when first published
- ISBN
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9780374129989 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)
9781841156729 (Fourth Estate, United Kingdom)
9780007232444 (Harper Perennial, United Kingdom)
9781250824028 (Picador, United States)
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