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The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen · 2001

Literary Fiction · ranked #7 in category

Winner · The National Book Award for Fiction, 2001

The three grown children of Alfred and Enid Lambert return home for a final Christmas as Alfred's Parkinson's progresses and Enid refuses to accept what is happening to her marriage and family. Franzen's National Book Award-winning novel moves between the Lambert children's separate American lives and their parents' Midwestern home in a portrait of family, decline and the late-20th-century United States.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2001 · 2000s
Author
Jonathan Franzen
Standing
Essential Read

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