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 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 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 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.©2001 Jonathan Franzen; (P)2001 Simon & Schuster Inc.; AUDIOWORKS Is an Imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio Division, Simon & Schuster Inc. Family Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction

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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.
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Took me a while to get into but once I did I found it moving and profound.

Thought Provoking

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loved it. dylan baker is brilliant and helps create the characters further with his voices and accents :)

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Fine if you haven’t read the book. Disappointingly abridged if you have. Would have preferred an unabridged reading.

Moving story, well told.

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Read this when it came out and felt the need to revisit it. Poignant and true-feeling on the family dynamics àt the centre of the story and the perspectives of each family member and the spirit of the age in which it was written. beautifully voiced, particularly when the reader has to voice the aged father, which was totally believable . Brilliant, richly-textured, moving book.

beautifully read

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I do wish that it was the full version of the book. However, I didn't feel like I missed too much of the detail that was skipped and omitted from the book.

Everything else about this book was brilliant and characters were consistently portrayed so, it was easy to follow.

Superb! Amazing performance. Thank you.

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