Franzen Jonathan - The Corrections A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: #1 NEW YORK Times Bestseller National BOOK Award Winner A spellbinding novel (People) from the New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Franzen the author of Crossroads 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. 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 that despite certain alarming indicators 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 beauty 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.
Title: The Corrections A Novel
Author(s): Franzen Jonathan
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250824028
Pages: 576 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 10/12/2021
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction