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The Corrections
A mother wants one last Christmas with her whole family. Each of her children has excellent reasons not to come.
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One Last Christmas
Jonathan Franzen's 2001 National Book Award winner follows the Lambert family. Alfred, a retired engineer whose Parkinson's is advancing. Enid, his wife, who wants one last proper family Christmas before it is no longer possible. Their children: Gary, a banker whose marriage is quietly imploding. Chip, an academic in disgrace who has fled to Lithuania. And Denise, a chef unravelling her own carefully constructed identity. Five people converging on a house full of everything they have never said.


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Reading The Corrections
3 Domestic
4 Suffocating
4 Absurd
5 Devastating
4 Comic
5 Quiet

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To look at the passing years from the vantage of a life that was still going on.


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Franzen spent nine years writing The Corrections after publicly abandoning his previous novel. The book sparked a national debate about literary ambition versus accessibility after Oprah's initially rescinded book club invitation generated enormous media attention.
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The novel sold over three million copies and won the National Book Award in 2001. HBO developed a television pilot that was never aired. Franzen is one of the most debated literary figures in contemporary American letters.


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