The Corrections

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The Corrections
576 pages; Picador

Because the Lamberts helped us live with our very American flaws.


The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century—a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious and deeply humane, it confirms that Jonathan Franzen is one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and American soul.

Featured in Oprah's Book Club 2001
— Oprah