The Corrections

by JonathanFranzen (Author)

• Used

  Mass Market Paperback
  2002

  $7.05

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.33

• Used

  Hardcover
  2001

  $4.30

  This novel about the Lambert family brings an old-time America of industrialism and civic duty, of Cub Scouts, Christmas cookies and sexual inhibitions, into collision with the modern absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting, and do-it yourself mental healthcare.

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $12.85

  From the author of 'Freedom', a richly realistic and darkly hilarious masterpiece about a family breakdown in an age of easy fixes. After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity, and their children have long since fled for the catastrophes of their own lives. As Alfred's condition worsens and the Lamberts are forced to face their secrets and failures, Enid sets her heart on one last family Christmas. Bringing the old world of civic virtue and sexual inhibition into violent collision with the era of hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare and globalised greed, 'The Corrections' confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of the most brilliant interpreters of the American soul.