The Corrections

The winner of the National Book Award, the New York Times No.1 Bestseller and the worldwide literary sensation, ‘The Corrections’ has established itself as a truly great American novel. The Lamberts — Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children — are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is ill and as his condition worsens the whole family must face the failures, secrets and long-buried hurts that haunt them if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs. Stretching from the Midwest in the mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of globalised greed, The Corrections brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty into wild collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and New Economy millionaires. It confirms Jonathan Franzen’s position as one of the most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul currently at work.

Author Biography Jonathan Franzen is the author of ‘The Twenty-Seventh City’, ‘Strong Motion’, ‘How to be Alone’ and ‘The Discomfort Zone’. His fiction and non-fiction appear frequently in the New Yorker and Harper’s, and he was named one of the best American novelists under forty by Granta and the New Yorker. He lives in New York City.

Author Biography

Jonathan Franzen is the author of ‘The Twenty-Seventh City’, ‘Strong Motion’, ‘How to be Alone’ and ‘The Discomfort Zone’. His fiction and non-fiction appear frequently in the New Yorker and Harper’s, and he was named one of the best American novelists under forty by Granta and the New Yorker. He lives in New York City.