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Winner of the 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 S Winner of the 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. 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. With The Corrections, Franzen emerges as one of our premier interpreters of American society and the American soul.
Enid Lambert is terribly, terribly anxious. Although she would never admit it to her neighbors or her three grown children, her husband, Alfred, is losing his grip on reality. 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. More and more often, he doesn’t seem to understand a word Enid says.
Trouble is also brewing in the lives of Enid’s children. 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. 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. 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.
Enid, who loves to have fun, can still look forward to a final family Christmas and to the ten-day Nordic Pleasurelines Luxury Fall Color Cruise that she and Alfred are about to embark on. But even these few remaining joys are threatened by her husband’s growing confusion and unsteadiness. As Alfred enters his final decline, the Lamberts must face the failures, secrets, and long-buried hurts that haunt them as a family if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs.
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July 2012
Facts concerning Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections
•Print runs of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections are believed to be the largest in recorded history.
•Although no reliable count exists, experts believe that the number of printed copies of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections runs into the hundreds of millions in the United States alone, with perhaps more than one billion copies of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections in existence worldwide.
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Facts concerning Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections
•Print runs of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections are believed to be the largest in recorded history.
•Although no reliable count exists, experts believe that the number of printed copies of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections runs into the hundreds of millions in the United States alone, with perhaps more than one billion copies of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections in existence worldwide.
•Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections was expected to be the Next Big Thing, but buyers became bored when they realized the book couldn’t be tickled like Elmo, or fed like a Tamagotchi, or collected like Beanie Babies. The unprecedented print run, as well as low sale numbers and high return rates, led to overcrowding. Some bookstores resorted to giving away copies for free, but recipients usually passed them on to unsuspecting friends, like fruitcake.
•By 2004, it is believed that every used bookstore in the continental United States contained at least two dozen copies of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections on its shelves.
•However, according to rumor, for every copy of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections you can see, ten more are hiding inside the walls or beneath the floorboards.
•Professional ex-libris-terminators worry that the infestation has spread from used bookstores to private homes. In fact, you may have several copies of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections on your bookshelves RIGHT NOW, and you may not even know it.
•In 2006, several bookstores along the East Coast and in and around Portland, OR, were found to contain nothing but copies of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections, lying in their own filth in crowded stacks and boxes.
•Following this discovery, Congress passed legislation mandating population controls for Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections. According to regulations, copies of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections may not outnumber other books that are not Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections by more than 2 to 1. This keeps the copies of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections from becoming too self-conscious.
•However, overcrowding persists, and some bookstores have been forced to destroy entire stacks of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections to make room for books that are not Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections.
•To escape this fate, some of the more clever copies of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections have taken to disguising themselves as books in Tim LaHaye’s and Jerry B. Jenkins’ Left Behind series. Few manage to find good homes. Some bolder, braver copies of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections occasionally venture forth into the Ts, to hide among Tolstoy and Trollope, but are usually ambushed by gangs of Edith Wharton novels and never seen again.
•Sadly, due to gridlock in the current session of Congress, no action has been taken lately, causing tens of millions of copies of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections to be rounded up and destroyed in the last two years.
•Although the world of books has developed many religious beliefs regarding what will happen in the after-livre, Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections remains firmly agnostic.
•This is just as well, since all pulped and recycled copies of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections are eventually reincarnated as copies of Jonathan Franzen’s novel Freedom.
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A friend gave me Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections a few years ago (hers had had a litter of baby Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections, free to a good home), and I’ve had it burrowed in the shelves ever since. Finally took steps to get rid of the infestation, but I decided to read it first.
And now it’s time to put Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections out of its misery. Its characters range from dull to awful, the story takes way too long to go nowhere, and yet the writing–the goddamn writing!–is damn fucking good. Jonathan Franzen can craft a delicious sentence, I’ll grant him that. But I had little desire to read this book and I have no desire to read his others, so I’m going to box up this copy of Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections, drop it at the back door of the nearest thrift store, and run like hell. Goodbye, little Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections. I hope you find a good home.
Now if you’ll excuse me, Edith Wharton awaits. …more
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