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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.

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21 September 2010
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‘A book which is funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent, and which poses the ultimate question: what is life for? And that is as much as anyone could ask' Guardian

‘Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture’ Don DeLillo

'Impossible to dislike, an unpretentious page-turner' Zadie Smith

'Compelling. A pleasure from beginning to end. Franzen, in one leap, has put himself into the league of Updike and Roth.' Evening Standard

‘A novel of outstanding sympathy, wit, moral intelligence and pathos, a family saga told with stylistic brio and psychological and political insight. No British novelist is currently writing at this pitch’ Financial Times

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Jonathan Franzen's work includes four novels (The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections, Freedom), two collections of essays (Farther Away, How To Be Alone), a memoir (The Discomfort Zone), and, most recently, The Kraus Project. He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0043VDEE6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial; New Ed edition (21 September 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Jonathan Franzen is the author of five novels--Purity, Freedom, The Corrections, The Twenty-Seventh City, and Strong Motion--and five works of nonfiction and translation, including Farther Away, How to Be Alone, and The Discomfort Zone, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the German Akademie der Kunste, and the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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Sydney1981

Disappointing

Reviewed in Australia on 24 October 2016

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Argh. What an incredibly frustrating book. Franzen writes so well, but much of this book is pure waffle about nothing that is related to the central plot. I was relieved to have finished this book, but also annoyed that I allowed myself to use up so much time reading it.

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Andrew C.

Family Melodrama.

Reviewed in Australia on 16 September 2015

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Pretty well executed, the story runs a bit base and sombre for mine. It reminds me of Irvine Welsh without the cool accents, and with a more subtle attempt at humor. Welsh and Franzen both put their characters through the wringer, and show them at their worst, but ultimately love and redeem them by story's end. I would have gone with a one or two star rating around the time I was tempted to quit, about a quarter of the way through what is a longish book, but I'm back up to three after finishing.

Reviewed in Australia on 25 April 2019

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Great Great Great and Great Great Great and Great Great Great and Great Great Great and Great Great Great. Amazing. All. Car. Can’t.

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Paul M. Saxby

One of the great books.

Reviewed in Australia on 23 January 2015

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Easily one of the great books and will go down as a classic piece of western literature. This is a book, I think about the possibilities of healing when the structure of family seems irrevocably broken.

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JH

Brilliant

Reviewed in Australia on 28 August 2020

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Very clever and perceptive yet easy to read novel.

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Stan Gibbs

Brilliant but flawed by excessive detail about the lives of ...

Reviewed in Australia on 4 February 2016

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Brilliant but flawed by excessive detail about the lives of minor characters and even inanimate objects. An incisive but very negative picture of American life.

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Sergiu Pobereznic (author)

Sad, sometimes funny, but often disturbing

Reviewed in Australia on 14 September 2015

Basically, this is a story about a family. The reader is given access to the mind of every member of the family.

The characters are mostly of the 'unlikeable' type and if you want a hero you won't find one. It's not part of Mr Franzen's master plan.

However, it is undeniable that Mr. Franzen is a great writer. Whatever you may think of him as a man or his views, as an author you have to admire his craft and sharp intellect – that alone deserves 3 stars. Every single page has something about it. It spoke to me on some level, whether I agreed or not.

His psychological assault makes it seem as though he is expertly taking apart and putting together the most complex inner workings of an antique clock, but he is doing it with human relationships and the human mind.
I found the book sad, sometimes funny, but often disturbing.

Am I glad that I read it?
YES!
Is it lacking something?
YES, but I am not quite sure what it is. Hence the 4 stars
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Not sure I'd recommend...

Reviewed in Australia on 11 January 2018

I found the characters all very dislikeable & struggled to relate to any one in this story. Chip was especially farcical.. I wondered at points if it was meant to be satirical or something?

Also the minutiae of detail in telling about some things, to me, was overkill.

Still, I finished it.. and actually, didn't want to put it down the past couple of days.. so it can't have been all that bad.

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GH

Corrections took me from 3 books a week to 1 in 6 months 😩

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 September 2020

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Much of Corrections feels self indulgent and a use of language in an attempt to be impressive. For me the result was hard work, barely comprehensible in part and long descriptions of often unimportant events ......making me think after one tedious diatribe “That’s 30 minutes of my life I’ll never get back” ...... grrrr. I wondered if this was a literary contribution to the slow movement, however on balance unlike the slow movement I could perceive no benefits.

Each time I looked at % complete it was so low I would become miserable. On a positive note though, this had become a challenge! I was not going to read anything else until I finished it and then I could legitimately slag off this tedium of words.
In a horrendous twist to my fate, in the last 30% I actually started to enjoy it a little. Whilst not actually liking any of the characters, I became at least vaguely interested in what happened to them which was a sizemic shift.

On reflection, there are benefits to this book: 1) helped me to sleep 2) given me a reason for a party now its over 🤗3) saved me money on other books as it is took 50 times longer to read than any other ‘normal’ book (see reason 1) 4) inspired me to write a rare review (so I hope this is of use!)

Good luck if you choose this path!

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M. Dowden

Still A Good Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 November 2017

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This book did quite well where I live when it first came onto the market, and I did read it then, but coming back to it after some years, and only remembering parts of the story, I did find that it is still a good read.

A social commentary on the times we live in, as well as giving us some biting satire there are a lot of themes that are taken in in this story in which we follow members of one family. Here then we meet the Lambert family with both parents still alive, although the father Alfred has Parkinson’s and dementia and is married to long suffering Enid. Their three children are all grown up and do not live in the same State as their parents, let alone within easy reach of the same town. Here we have Gary, the eldest, followed by Chip, and lastly the youngest, Denise.

This story takes in the decline of America’s heavy industrial past as it comes to changing to services, hi-tec and other sectors, whilst also showing how a dysfunctional family setting can then be transferred to children, and thus the families that they then have. The family members really do have hang-ups and none of them can seem to stay happy for any amount of time, although this does gradually change as the story reaches its climax. Certainly, mirroring the fears and anxieties of America both then and indeed now, to a certain extent this also highlights those that we are also feeling in this country and elsewhere. Also, we see the problems that Eastern European countries faced trying to come to terms with new economic models.

As the main family members try to come to terms with what and who they are this does jump about a bit, not only between characters, but also time periods, as it goes backwards and forwards from present to past. Thoughtful, but also quite humorous on the whole this is intelligently written and does bring up a lot of topics, and could indeed be a good choice for book groups.

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B. Kristensen

Powerful family saga

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 November 2021

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I was about to buy this again as a present for a friend when I noticed that the version I found only had one really negative review, which made me really sad. So although I read it many years ago I felt the need to add a review. This was my first Franzen novel and I liked it so much I went on to buy several others. It's an epic family saga, follows the somewhat dysfunctional yet very much relatable Lambert family; Enid and Alfred and their 3 adult children through their troubled lives. I loved the psychological and political complexity Franzen brings to his characters lives. The portrayal of the Lamberts took me through a wide spectrum of emotions and I dearly missed them all for a while after finishing the book.

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Adnan Soysal

not interesting & disengaging

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 June 2021

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Stopped at page 75.
First of all author has a bad writing style.
Sentences are long, clumsy, or tasteless.

Secondly, story is unclear, plot is not engaging, tasteless.

The odd thing about Jonathan Franzen is that while it is fun to read his dialogues,
(That was also the case in his other novel "Freedom") his narration style is disengaging, boring, difficult to follow.

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Mr. D. Nash

A good dark comedy - but twice as long as it needs to be

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 March 2016

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I grant that Jonathan Franzen has constructed a distinctly dark comic picture of a family - all of whom have severe mental issues. Father Alfred is deeply but ridiculously moral; all his life sexually repressed; suffering from dementia; experiencing hallucinations; exhibiting paranoia. Mother Enid tries to keep the family show on the road; in denial about its deep problems; self deluding about her children; but deeply loving. Wayward Chip is an academic who gets chucked out for sexual misdemeanours; drifts into a friendship with a very dodgy Lithuanian politician; in his shame tries to avoid any protracted family contact. Gifted chef Denise cannot cope well with a stormy lesbian relationship with her boss's wife. There are some stellar comic inventions. However: IT'S TWICE AS LONG AS IT NEEDS TO BE! I almost gave up in exhaustion several times. It is nearly 600 pages long. Why is it that American authors seem to think that their talent is measured by weight or volume? Is the vital art of the editor entirely absent across the water? At 300 pages, this book could have been very good or even excellent. As it is, it has enough highlights for me to give it 3 stars.

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