The Madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through.
An edition of The Corrections
(2001)
The corrections
1st ed.
by Jonathan Franzen
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"After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert 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 their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed.
The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and heart down the drain of an affair with a married man - or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home."--BOOK JACKET.
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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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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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Las correcciones
2002 April, Editorial Seix Barral
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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, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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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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