The corrections / Jonathan Franzen.

By:

Franzen, Jonathan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Harper Perennial, 2006.Description: 653 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

0007232446 (pbk)
9780007232444 (pbk)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

813 FRA

Summary: Stretching from the Midwest in the mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of globalised greed, this book 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Fiction Collection	813 FRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Checked out	29/09/2023	39002100658641

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 2001.

Stretching from the Midwest in the mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of globalised greed, this book 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.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jonathan Franzen was born in Western Springs, Illinois on August 17, 1959. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1981, and went on to study at the Freie University in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar. He worked in a seismology lab at Harvard University's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences after graduation.

His works include The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), How to Be Alone (2002), and The Discomfort Zone (2006). The Corrections (2001) won a National Book Award and the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Freedom (2010) is an Oprah Book Club selection. He also won a Whiting Writers' Award in 1988 and the American Academy's Berlin Prize in 2000. He is also a frequent contributor to Harper's and The New Yorker. In 2015 his title Purity made The New Yort Times and New Zealand Best Seller List.

(Bowker Author Biography)