The Corrections

The Corrections

By Jonathan Franzen

New York

Farrar, Straus and Girroux

2001


This novel follows the journey of the Lambert family as they come to terms with Mr Lambert’s diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease.

This is a leisurely paced, darkly humerous novel.


“the cupcakes were full of butter and frosted with a butter icing….he lowered the blinds and ate two more cupcakes, detecting peppermint in them, a faint buttery peppermint before he slept”

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