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The Corrections

By: Jonathan Franzen
Narrated by: Dylan Baker
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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 Funny Heartfelt Witty
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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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The story builds slowly and few of the characters are likeable on the surface. Without being able to explain how, I became gripped by the unfolding connections and couldn't put the story down.

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this isn't really a review of a the book, just an expression of my annoyance that they don't have the unabridged version of this book. It's one of the biggest books of the 21st century - why wouldn't they have an unabridged version?

where's the unabridged version?

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