The Corrections
A Novel
2001
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.
“You will laugh, wince, groan, weep, leave the table and maybe the country, promise never to go home again, and be reminded of why you read serious fiction in the first place.”
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
“Marvelous . . . Everything we want in a novel–except, when it’s rocking along, for it never to be over.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture–our culture.”
DON DELILLO
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The Corrections
A Novel
2001
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.
“You will laugh, wince, groan, weep, leave the table and maybe the country, promise never to go home again, and be reminded of why you read serious fiction in the first place.”
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
“Marvelous . . . Everything we want in a novel–except, when it’s rocking along, for it never to be over.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture–our culture.”
DON DELILLO
BUY NOW