The Corrections 9780007232444 Paperback

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25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHORThe first great American novel of the twenty-first centuryELLE’Gluttonously fun, plotted like a museum heist’TONY TULATHIMUTTE’Funny, poignant, soulful and savage’ELIZABETH DAYA brilliantly perceptive and moving novel that announced Jonathan Franzen as one of our greatest living writers.The Lamberts Enid, Alfred and their three grown-up children are a troubled family living in a troubled age. After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid is ready to have some fun, but her husband Alfred is losing his mind to Parkinsons. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the long-buried secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathering everyone together for one last family Christmas.Compellingly readable, funny and above all generous spiritedDaily MailA novel of outstanding sympathy, wit, moral intelligence and pathos, a family saga told with stylistic brio and psychological and political insightFinancial TimesA big-hearted, panoramic American epic, intelligent and wise but also wildly, stonkingly funnyIndependent