The Corrections - SIGNED
Language: English
Published by Fourth Estate, London, 2002
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used





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First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 568. Quarter-bound brown cloth over textured paper boards, title blind-stamped to spine and author's initials to upper board; brown endpapers. Jacket design by Julian Humphries with illustration by Sarah White. Signed by Franzen to title page in his characteristic squiggle. Tanning to textblock edges, as usual with this title, else Fine. Author's third novel. Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction and finalist for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award. Winner of the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Nominated for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Selected as one of their 10 Best Books of 2001 by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. Listed at No. 16 in "The 100 Best Books of 21st Century" by The Guardian in 2019. Annointed as one of the 20 Best American Novelists under the age of 40 by both Granta and The New Yorker. A controversial Oprah Book Club selection, after Franzen declined her invitation to appear on the show. Framed by matriarch Enid Lambert's desperate attempts to gather her brood back home for one last Christmas, Franzen's tragi-comic novel about the breakdown of a dysfunctional Midwestern family took almost a decade to complete. "Large-hearted and merciless." -David Foster Wallace.…
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- Title
- The Corrections - SIGNED
- Author
- Jonathan Franzen
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate, London
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- Near fine
- Signed
- signed
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1841156728
- ISBN 13
- 9781841156729
- Edition
- First UK edition.
- Item weight
- 863 grams
A panoramic vision of America at the beginning of the 21st century, seen through the turbulent lives of the Lambert family. At once a moving family drama and a dissection of American society in an age of greed and globalism, The Corrections emerges 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 announces Jonathan Franzen as one of the most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.
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About the Author
Jonathan Franzen’s work includes four novels (The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, The Corrections, Freedom), two collections of essays (Farther Away, How To Be Alone), a memoir (The Discomfort Zone), and, most recently, The Kraus Project. He is recognised as one of the best American writers of our age and has won many awards. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.
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