CORRECTIONS PB
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Harper Collins Publishers - UK Wholesale Acct
12,99 €
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
05.11.2001
Verlag
Harper Collins Publishers - UK Wholesale AcctSeitenzahl
576
Maße (L/B/H)
23,4/15,3/3 cm
Gewicht
270 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-84115-731-3
25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR
'The first great American novel of the twenty-first century'ELLE
'Gluttonously fun, plotted like a museum heist'TONY TULATHIMUTTE
'Funny, poignant, soulful and savage' ELIZABETH DAY
The Corrections is a deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of greed and globalism. Franzen brings an old-time America of industrialism and civic duty, of Cub Scouts, Christmas cookies and sexual inhibitions, into brilliant collision with the modern absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting, and do-it-yourself mental healthcare.
Although she would never admit it, Enid's husband, Alfred, is losing his grip on reality. Maybe it's the pills that Alfred takes for his Parkinson's disease, or maybe it's his negative attitude, but he spends his day brooding in the basement. Trouble is also brewing in their children's lives. Gary, a wealthy banker and seemingly happily married, is disaffected and a bit too fond of his drink. Chip, after a disastrous entanglement with a female student, has had to leave his prestigious job as professor at D College, and is penning a screenplay of dubious worth. Denise's life is spiralling out of control as her romantic affairs catastrophically implodes on her career as a well-known chef in Philadelphia.
As Alfred's condition worsens, one question obsesses Enid. Will all the family spend Christmas together? The sense of urgency mounts as all the family members are caught up in the maelstrom of their mid-life crises, their love-affairs, their faltering careers. Long-buried secrets are unearthed and memories of the past feed into their ever-shifting relationships. Through this unparalleled description of family life, Franzen opens up a tremendous vista of a brash American society at the beginning of the twenty-first century. From foreign policy and healthcare to gated communities, from restaurant critics to workers on the freight trains, this is a panoramic vision of growing old and being young in America. At once comic, tragic, satirical, lyrical, and full of suspense, The Corrections emerges as a truly great American novel.
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In the end all great stories deal with familes and have done so ever since. Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" to me is one of these. With a keen eye for detail, prosaic but empathetic the same he describes the lifelong struggles for love and attention, the rivalry, great and failed expectations, misunderstandings, envy, tenderness, pity and grief of the Lambert family (well, and sex of course). I was especially struck by his humour and the sudden twists and surprises: the book is full of it! Very often I was reminded of Dickens' novels, and like Dickens' books neither "The Corrections" (written in 2001) haven't aged a day. Very moving, very American and a feast for every reader.
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