Description:
The Corrections is Jonathan Franzen's unsparing account of
a divided, unhappy American family. The novel focuses on three critical
months in the history of the Lambert family, longtime residents of the
fictional Midwestern city of St. Jude. Albert, the family patriarch
who has dominated the Lambert household for more than 50 years, has
just been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Against the disturbing
background of his mental and physical deterioration, Enid — Albert's
long-suffering, dissatisfied spouse — develops a obsessive need
to see her scattered family return to St. Jude for one last Christmas
together.
Our panel:
Karen Wikander
Doreen Davis-Peterson
Cindie Geddes
Links
for this book:
January
Magazine
Salon.com
Also
by this author:
The
Twenty-Seventh City;
Picador USA; August 2001
Strong
Motion; Picador
USA; August 2001
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