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The Corrections

By: Jonathan Franzen
Narrated by: George Guidall
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 THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘A genuine masterpiece, the first great American novel of the twenty-first century’ Elle ‘Funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent’ Guardian

A 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 Parkinson’s. 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 spirited’ Daily Mail

‘A novel of outstanding sympathy, wit, moral intelligence and pathos, a family saga told with stylistic brio and psychological and political insight’ Financial Times

‘A big-hearted, panoramic American epic, intelligent and wise but also wildly, stonkingly funny’ Independent

©2021 Jonathan Franzen (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Classics Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Marriage

Critic reviews

"Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture - our culture. And he has done it with a sympathy and expansiveness that bends the edgy modern temper to a generous breadth of vision." (Don DeLillo)

"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)

"In its complexity, its scrutinizing and utterly unsentimental humanity, and its grasp of the subtle relationships between domestic drama and global events, The Corrections stands in the company of Mann's Buddenbrooks and DeLillo's White Noise. It is a major accomplishment." (Michael Cunningham)

"A genuine masterpiece, the first great American novel of the twenty-first century." (Elle)

"Funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent." (Guardian)

"Compellingly readable, funny and above all generous spirited." (Daily Mail)

"A novel of outstanding sympathy, wit, moral intelligence and pathos, a family saga told with stylistic brio and psychological and political insight." (Financial Times)

"A big-hearted, panoramic American epic, intelligent and wise but also wildly, stonkingly funny." (Independent)

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This is robably the best audio book I have listened to. Brilliantly written and read.

Fantastic

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Read this book if you like great writing, family intrigue as a satire which made me laugh out loud at how awful they all were!

Brilliant

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A fantastic family drama, beautifully performed by the reader. Both hilarious and poignant at the same time.

Little gem

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Dark, funny in parts, very moving in others.
There’s no hero here but you bond with the characters that are so vividly brought to life

Insightful, excellently written family biopic

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This book is jaw-clenchingly relatable. I loved it. The interwoven stories are done with a building suspense, and even the most mundane lives are turned to intrigue. I'm so glad that my partner recommended it as one of his favourites. It reminds me a lot of my family, my grandparents dysfunction, my parents, my own. To be honest at first I found the whole thing a bit depressing, what a horrible look at a load of deeply depressing lives. But honestly, by the end, there was something refreshing to it. Something that made me want to keep going. With the book, and with my own depressing, mundane, fascinating life.

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