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The Lamberts – Enid and Alfred and their three grown up children – are a troubled family living in a troubled age. Alfred is slowly losing his mind to Parkinson’s disease. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathering everyone together for one last family Christmas.
Industry Reviews
'A book which is funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent, and which poses the ultimate question: what life is for? And that is as much as anyone could ask.'
Blake Morrison Guardian
'For anyone who has ever found themselves guiltily yearning for an Anne Tyler while in the middle of an Updike or Wolfe. The Lamberts are utterly believable, and once they have all told their stories you can't help but sympathise with them. Be prepared to be moved.'
Laurence Phelan Independent on Sunday
'Compelling. A pleasure from beginning to end. Franzen, in one leap, has put himself into the league of Updike and Roth.'
David Sexton 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.'
Jeremy Treglowen Financial Times
'Impossible to dislike, an unpretentious page-turner.'
Zadie Smith Guardian Book of the Year
'The Corrections" is a wonderful book. Every page simmers with wit, close observation and intelligence. Franzen has delivered as wounding and thoughtful an indictment of contemporary existence as it is possible to make.'
John Burnside Scotsman
'As good as anything I've ever read.'
Rachel Cusk Daily Telegraph Books of the Year
‘Intelligent, compellingly readable, funny and above all generous spirited, it is a rare thing, a modern novel with both head and heart’
Daily Mail
‘Funny and deeply sad, large-hearted and merciless, The Corrections is a testament to the range and depth of pleasures great fiction affords'
David Foster Wallace
Blake Morrison Guardian
'For anyone who has ever found themselves guiltily yearning for an Anne Tyler while in the middle of an Updike or Wolfe. The Lamberts are utterly believable, and once they have all told their stories you can't help but sympathise with them. Be prepared to be moved.'
Laurence Phelan Independent on Sunday
'Compelling. A pleasure from beginning to end. Franzen, in one leap, has put himself into the league of Updike and Roth.'
David Sexton 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.'
Jeremy Treglowen Financial Times
'Impossible to dislike, an unpretentious page-turner.'
Zadie Smith Guardian Book of the Year
'The Corrections" is a wonderful book. Every page simmers with wit, close observation and intelligence. Franzen has delivered as wounding and thoughtful an indictment of contemporary existence as it is possible to make.'
John Burnside Scotsman
'As good as anything I've ever read.'
Rachel Cusk Daily Telegraph Books of the Year
‘Intelligent, compellingly readable, funny and above all generous spirited, it is a rare thing, a modern novel with both head and heart’
Daily Mail
‘Funny and deeply sad, large-hearted and merciless, The Corrections is a testament to the range and depth of pleasures great fiction affords'
David Foster Wallace
ISBN: 9780007232444
ISBN-10: 0007232446
Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics
Published: 1st September 2007
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 672
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 4.2 x 19.8 x 12.9
Weight (kg): 0.465
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