The Corrections (signed)

Franzen, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 0007308795 / ISBN 13: 9780007308798

Published by Fourth Estate, London, 2009

About this Item

Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction, this is from an edition of 2,000 numbered copies celebrating the publisher's 25th anniversary. It won the 2002 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, was nominated for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award. As if that wasn't enough, it was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award, was selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the 10 Best Books of 2001, and in 2019 made the list of The Guardian newspaper's "The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century," coming in at #16. A low limited-edition number (24), signed by Franzen on the title page. The dust jacket is a fold-out limited edition print by Royal Academy of Arts member Michael Landry. Black cloth w/silver spine lettering, 615 pages, yellow silk bookmark bound in place. Scarce signed.

Seller Inventory # 019801

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Corrections (signed)
• Publisher: Fourth Estate, London
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007308795
• ISBN 13: 9780007308798
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Michael Landry (dust jacket illustration)
• Edition: 1st Limited/Numbered Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction (hardcover)
  • Signed (all categories)

About this title

Synopsis

‘The Corrections’ is one of five classic Fourth Estate books to be released as numbered, collectable editions to mark the 25th anniversary. The books will be beautifully produced hardbacks, limited to 2000 copies each, with jackets designed by some of the finest artists at work today.

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.

The cover design is a limited edition print (1 of 2000) by Michael Landy.
Michael Landy, of the so-called Young British Artists, is best known for his performance piece cum installation, Breakdown, in which he destroyed all of his possessions.

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.