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Atlantic, The, September, 2001
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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 576 pages, $25.00 Since The Twenty-Seventh City , Jonathan Franzen's amazing debut way back in 1988, American fiction has seen a host of smart-guy writers, some of whom have garnered that dubious laurel, literary celebrity. Franzen, who may be the most rewarding of the lot, last surfaced in 1992, with Strong Motion , another daring performance, but since then he has published only essays and excerpts, whetting readers' appetites for this, his long-awaited third novel.
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The Corrections follows the tribulations of the Lambert family, from the stolid midwestern city of St. Jude. The children have long since grown and fled to the hipper East Coast, leaving Enid to tend Alfred, whose health, like their relationship, is declining precipitately. Enid's dream is to have one last perfect Christmas together as a family—after she and Alfred take their dream cruise. The action opens ...
