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National Book Prize, Fiction, 2001 The Corrections is a grandly amusing book for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family wearing down in an age of easy fixes. After almost 50 years as a partner and mother, Enid Lambert is preparing to have some fun. Unfortunately, her partner, 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 profile administrator and family man, is trying to convince his partner and himself, despite clear symptoms to the in contrast, that he's not clinically frustrated. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academics job which is failing specatcularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her junior and beauty down the drain by using an affair with a wedded man - roughly her mother fears. In need of some pleasure to anticipate. Enid has establish her heart by using an elusive goal: getting her family alongside one another for one previous Christmas at home. Stretches from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall structure Streets and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and intimate inhibitions into violent collision with the period of home monitoring, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and globalized greed. Richly natural, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one in our most outstanding interpreters of American modern culture and the American soul.
