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Simon & Schuster Audio, September 2001
Abridged Audio Download
ISBN-10: 0743545281
ISBN-13: 9780743545280
Awards and Nominations
- Audie Award Winner
Description
The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century--a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. 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 specatcularly 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 on 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.
Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.
Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.
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Pat Conroy
Jonathan Franzen's novel The Corrections is the brightest, boldest, and most ambitious novel I've read in many years.
Daily Texan, October 13, 2011
...Museum ADMISSION: $5 for members, $12 for public On tour for his latest novel, “Freedom,” award-winning American author Jonathan Franzen will speak about the best seller at Bass Concert Hall on Friday. Praised from its strong portrayal ...
Idaho Mountain Express, October 7, 2011
...Acclaimed author Jonathan Franzen will speak at the Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood in Ketchum on Sunday, Oct. 9. Courtesy photo. If you're not familiar with Jonathan Franzen, it's time ...
Christian Science Monitor, October 5, 2011
...'The Corrections,' Jonathan Franzen's 2001 story of a troubled family, will air on HBO with Franzen working with director Noah Baumbach and producer Scott Rudin on the project. By Molly Driscoll ...
Huffington Post, October 2, 2011
...Great American novelist Jonathan Franzen told a packed house yesterday he's definitely adapting his sweeping third novel, "The Corrections" for HBO. There've been rumors about the HBO project since early September, but ...
Huffington Post, October 2, 2011
...Great American novelist Jonathan Franzen told a packed house yesterday he's definitely adapting his sweeping third novel, "The Corrections" for HBO. There've been rumors about the HBO project since early September, but ...
BlackBook, October 2, 2011
...When you read Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections did you think to yourself, "Man, this story about old people and Midwestern family would be a great TV show"? Someone at HBO did. Franzen hit ...
WRTI 90.1 FM, September 30, 2011
...Jonathan Franzen is also the author of The Corrections: A Novel, and The Discomfort Zone, a memoir. He is pictured above at The New Yorker Festival Fiction Night in New York ...
SunValleyOnline.com, September 28, 2011
...(0 votes) ( report abuse ) ( add your comment ) Share Ketchum, ID — Writer Jonathan Franzen, author of the blockbuster bestsellers Freedom and The Corrections, will kick off the Sun Valley Center for the Arts 2011/2012 Lecture ...
Davis Patch, September 27, 2011
...I read Jonathan Franzen’s “ Freedom ” while riding busses to and from work in San Francisco last winter. I started and ended my days with it for an entire month, and I thoroughly ...
NewsGuide.us, September 23, 2011
...Mary Jo Stanley debuts new novel celebrating old literary traditions From John Steinbeck’s East of Eden to Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, family sagas have long been a staple of literary achievements. Author Mary Jo Stanley ...
Canberra Times, September 14, 2011
...Writing a definitive political novel is much harder than anyone imagines, says Jonathan Franzen, and yet he wasted five years trying to do just that.The 52-year-old American literary sensation was at the National Library yesterday, speaking ...
Roanoke Times, September 1, 2011
...books” versus “finite amount of time to read” that all bibliophiles face. I’ve had a copy of Jonathan Franzen’s brick-like 576-page novel “The Corrections” sitting in my “to read” stack since well before the book was ...
Washington Post, January 5, 2010
...sometimes happen to good people and crime sometimes does pay. "The Privileges" will inevitably be compared to "The Corrections," but Jonathan Franzen's novel is more ambitious and, finally, more successful, taking on as it does the complex ...
Washington Post, January 5, 2010
...sometimes happen to good people and crime sometimes does pay. 'The Privileges' will inevitably be compared to 'The Corrections,' but Jonathan Franzen's novel is more ambitious and, finally, more successful, taking on as it does the complex ...
Houston Chronicle, November 20, 2009
...s lesbian to a therapist played by Winfrey, while DeGeneres herself came out as gay, 1997. -- Writer Jonathan Franzen dismisses Winfrey's book club selections as including "schmaltzy" works after she picks his novel The Corrections, and he ...
News24.com, November 20, 2009
...s lesbian to a therapist played by Winfrey, while DeGeneres herself came out as gay, 1997.- Writer Jonathan Franzen dismisses Winfrey's book club selections as including "schmaltzy" works after she picks his novel The Corrections, and he ...
KansasCity.com, November 20, 2009
...s lesbian to a therapist played by Winfrey, while DeGeneres herself came out as gay, 1997. - Writer Jonathan Franzen dismisses Winfrey's book club selections as including "schmaltzy" works after she picks his novel "The Corrections," and he ...
Silk FM, November 20, 2009
...she's lesbian to a therapist played by Winfrey. while DeGeneres herself came out as gay. 1997. -Writer Jonathan Franzen dismisses Winfrey's book club selections as including "schmaltzy" works after she picks his novel "The Corrections." and ...
The Onion AV Club, August 26, 2009
...it?I just didn?t take it seriously. Suddenly I realized that this was my cultural DNA, not The Corrections, but all this nerdy stuff. I always discounted it, though, and never took it seriously as subject matter for fiction. When I read my ...
Blogcritics.org, August 11, 2009
...out (to cite just a few examples of an almost universal them) Jonathan Lethem?s Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Franzen?s The Corrections, Marisha Pessl?s Special Topics in Calamity Physics, Marilynne Robinson?s Housekeeping, Arundhati Roy?s ...
London Review of Books, May 21, 2009
...thus the ?craggy wad? with ?the texture . . . of wet dog crap? that sparks the terrible primal scene in Jonathan Franzen?s The Corrections) turn up much more than anyone could want. I imagine, as I search stoically for the masher, that this ...
Drowned In Sound, May 18, 2009
...Years ago, some of us went to a reading of literary crossover hit, The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen. During the Q&A, this girl we recognized asked what books he (Franzen) was inspired by, and would recommend, pen & notepad at the ready. ...
London Review of Books, May 6, 2009
...thus the ?craggy wad? with ?the texture . . . of wet dog crap? that sparks the terrible primal scene in Jonathan Franzen?s The Corrections) turn up much more than anyone could want. I imagine, as I search stoically for the masher, that this ...
Telegraph, May 1, 2009
...For years, I didn't think my own world was a legitimate subject for fiction. Then I read Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and decided that if he could write about his family in a way that was moving, not mocking, so could I.' The result is ...
Article Dashboard.com, April 11, 2009
...its debut on 1996. A lot of debates nonetheless storm Ophra?s Book Club selection process. Most remarkably Jonathan Franzen?s discontent on Winfrey selecting his novel ?The Corrections? and the altercation on live telecast pertaining to ...
ArticleBliss.com, April 1, 2009
...its debut on 1996. A lot of debates nonetheless storm Ophra?s Book Club selection process. Most remarkably Jonathan Franzen?s discontent on Winfrey selecting his novel ?The Corrections? and the altercation on live telecast pertaining to ...
Guardian Unlimited, March 13, 2009
...confident and stylish writer, capable of shrewd observation. Critics from the US have aptly compared this to The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen being among the leaders of discomfort fiction. But Franzen writes with a malevolent weirdness that ...
Knox News Sentinel, March 9, 2009
...much more a character study than I usually like in a novel. I found the tone similar to Jonathan Franzen's 'The Corrections.' The second novel is a mommy lit piece by Katherine Center called 'Everyone is Beautiful.' Lanie Coates, her huband ...
Globe and Mail, March 6, 2009
...intergenerational estrangement caused by the mass shift in social class in the second half of the 20th century (Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections) or the transatlantic marriage and family (Zadie Smith's stride-hitting On Beauty). Zoë ...
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Telegraph, February 20, 2009
...the best in literature and thought remains strong. But who shall tell us what that is? In 2001 Jonathan Franzen complained when the Oprah Book Club stuck its glitzy label on his novel; The Corrections, he said, was in the high-art literary ...
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