The release date for the English version of 'The Corrections' by
Jonathan Franzen is Sep 2002. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
"The Corrections" is a humorous, sad masterwork about a family disintegrating in the era of simple solutions, and it's a grandly entertaining story for the new century.
Enid Lambert is ready for a little fun after almost fifty years of being a wife and mother. Their children have long ago left the nest to face the tragedies of their own lives, and her husband Alfred is sadly losing his mind due to Parkinson's illness. The eldest, Gary, a once-stable family man and fund manager, is attempting to persuade himself and his wife that he is not clinically depressed in spite of obvious indicators to the contrary. Chip, the middle kid, lost his position in academia, which seemed to be stable, and is not doing well in his new career. The youngest, Denise, is said by her mother to have fled a terrible marriage only to lose her youth and beauty in an affair with a married man. Enid has set her heart on an unattainable goal: getting her family together for one final Christmas at home. She is desperate for something enjoyable to look forward to.
"The Corrections" spans the decades from the Midwest in the middle of the 20th century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe today. It violently clashes an antiquated world of civic virtue and sexual restraint with the modern era of home surveillance, laissez-parent parenting, self-managed mental health care, and globalized greed. It firmly establishes Jonathan Franzen as one of our most gifted interpreters of American culture and the American psyche. It is richly realistic, wickedly humorous, and profoundly humanistic.