“A spellbinding novel” (People) from the New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections is a comic, tragic epic of worlds colliding: an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions, a new world of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed/5(K). · What was so impressive about The Corrections for many readers was the way Franzen managed to marry pyrotechnic literary ambitions to an immersive, highly readable family saga. It . · The Corrections, Franzen, Jonathan The Corrections is a novel by American author Jonathan Franzen's third novel. It revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the midth century to "one last Christmas" together near the turn of the millennium/5(K).
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. likes. Like "The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a. Illuminated by Jonathan Franzen's brilliant prose, bill paying, grocery shopping, depression, Christmas holidays, a walk to the corner shop become subjects of breathless interest and, often, wild humor. Over and over he gives us the deep pleasure of seeing the world around us - and the world inside us - in new ways. The Corrections, Franzen, Jonathan The Corrections is a novel by American author Jonathan Franzen's third novel. It revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the midth century to "one last Christmas" together near the turn of the millennium.
The Corrections. The Corrections admirably portrays the values of both contemporary American yuppies and their square parents. While the three main characters are well-spoken East Coast professionals, their parents’ Midwestern, mid-century worldview is also charitably represented. The Corrections is a novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. It revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the midth century to "one last Christmas" together near the turn of the millennium. The novel was awarded the National Book Award in and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in Franzen analyzes these five characters in astonishingly convincing depth, juxtaposing their personal crises and failures against the siren songs of such “corrections” as the useless therapy treatment (based on his own patented invention) that Alfred undergoes, the “uppers” Enid gets from a heartless Doctor Feelgood during a (wonderfully depicted) vacation cruise, and the various panaceas and hustles doled out by the consumer culture Alfred rails against (“Oh, the myths, the.
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