The Corrections : Advance Reader's Copy

Franzen, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0374919224 / ISBN 13: 9780374919221

Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001

About this Item

advance reader's copy; signed by Franzen; signature obtained in person by bookseller; has a few slightly warped pages appears from moisture.

Seller Inventory # 4364

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Corrections : Advance Reader's Copy
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374919224
• ISBN 13: 9780374919221
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • fiction

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Synopsis

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,t he 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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