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Jonathan Franzen's exhilarating novel The Corrections tells a spellbinding story with sexy comic brio, and evokes a quirky family akin to Anne Tyler's, only bitter. Franzen's great at describing Christmas homecomings gone awry, cruise-ship follies, self-deluded academics, breast-obsessed screenwriters, stodgy old farts and edgy Tribeca bohemians equally at sea in their lives, and the mad, bad, dangerous worlds of the Internet boom and the fissioning post-Soviet East.
All five members of the Lambert family get their due, as everybody's lives swirl out of control. Paterfamilias Alfred is slipping into dementia, even as one of his inventions inspires a pharmaceutical giant to revolutionize treatment of his disease. His stubborn wife, Enid, specializes in denial; so do their kids, each in an idiosyncratic way. Their hepcat son, Chip, lost a college sinecure by seducing a student, and his new career as a screenwriter is in peril. Chip's sister, Denise, is a chic chef perpetually in hot water, romantically speaking; banker brother Gary wonders if his stifling marriage is driving him nuts. We inhabit these troubled minds in turn, sinking into sorrow punctuated by laughter, reveling in Franzen's satirical eye:
Gary in recent years had observed, with plate tectonically cumulative anxiety, that population was continuing to flow out of the Midwest and toward the cooler coasts.... Gary wished that all further migration [could] be banned and all Midwesterners encouraged to revert to eating pasty foods and wearing dowdy clothes and playing board games, in order that a strategic national reserve of cluelessness might be maintained, a wilderness of taste which would enable people of privilege, like himself, to feel extremely civilized in perpetuity.Franzen is funny and on the money. This book puts him on the literary map. --Tim Appelo
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/ 'Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture -- our culture. And he has done it with a sympathy and expansiveness that bends the edgy modern temper to a generous breadth of vision.' Don DeLillo / '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 / 'In its complexity, its scrutinizing and utterly unsentimental humanity, and its grasp of the subtle relationships between domestic drama and global events, The Corrections stands in the company of Mann's Buddenbrooks and DeLillo's White Noise. It is a major accomplishment.' Michael Cunningham 'I only put the book down when my life needed tending to ! no one book of course can provide everything we want in a novel. But a book as strong as The Corrections seems ruled only by its own self-generated aesthetic: it creates the illusion of giving a complete account of a world, and while we're under its enchantment it temporarily eclipses whatever else we may have read.' New York Times
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love this book,
By Betty the Lady (Montreal) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Corrections (Paperback)
I'd read a lot about THE CORRECTIONS, both good and bad, but stayed away for a while. Well, it took a while to get into, but it took off for me at about page 150 and didn't let down. I just can't recommend this book enough. Forget the bad stuff you've heard----this is one heck of a book!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I really liked it!,
By brenda (sydney , Nova Scotia Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Corrections (Paperback)
At the start of this book, I wondered where the author was trying to take me but less than half way through,I understood. I found this book to have a bit of everything...it stirred many emotions. The writing was excellent and the character development was great. I believe readers could honestly identify with the characters and in fact, could see their own family in the troubles and trials of the Lamberts. This book gave me pause to think about my own family and just how well our parents know us or even how well we know them. We often believe that as our parents age, WE know what's best for them as though they are unable to think for themselves just because they are over 65!!In short, it was a quirky, intelligent read...but not if you enjoy some of the formulated tales that are on the market today!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Corrected,
This review is from: The Corrections (Paperback)
This is a good critique on the Amercian middle class today. There are no two-dimensional characters in the book, and the personalities of each one of them are described in depth in the story, which is rarely seen in other novels. I am moved by the ending of the book, although none of the characters is adorable. However, the book is a bit too long. Had the author refrained from writing long sentences (sometimes one sentence took up a whole paragraph!), the book would have been even better. I've recently read another great book titled BARK OF THE DOGWOOD which is equally intricate and well thought out. I highly recommend both it and THE CORRECTIONS.
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