
The Corrections
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Narrated by:
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Dylan Baker
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By:
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Jonathan Franzen
Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental health care, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Frazen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.
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Critic reviews
- Audie Award Winner, Fiction (Abridged), 2002
- Book Sense Book of the Year Award Finalist, Adult Fiction, 2002
- National Book Award Winner, Best Fiction, 2001
- An Oprah Book Club Selection
"When critics refer to 'The Great American Novel' this is it, people!" (Oprah Winfrey)
"The brightest, boldest, and most ambitious novel I've read in many years." (Pat Conroy)
"This is, simply, a masterpiece." (Amazon.com)
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Great narration !
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An interesting book with interesting people.....
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The Corrections follows the lives of five family members, each with their own unique problems. All of these characters are fully developed and none are stereotypes -- each character is a decidedly different shade of gray. And despite the summary's emphasis on Enid, the wife and mother, of the novel's five characters, I would have to say that the story most belongs to Denise, the daughter, whose eyes seem to see more clearly than anyone else's here.
I cannot say when I first became hooked into this story, which is actually a collection of character vignettes that crisscross over one another before finally uniting in the last few chapters; but I know I surrendered early on. At nine hours this book is a saga that only gets more interesting the longer you read it. As some have mentioned, the characters do tend to do hateful things to each another, and one could classify this book as depressing in tone; yet somehow one doesn't feel depressed while reading it, only uplifted. The Corrections is a fascinating, insightful, and satisfying book that leaves you thinking about it long after you've put it down.
A memorable book; flawless narration
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Awesomely tragic
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I L-O-V-E this book!
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Would you listen to The Corrections again? Why?
YES! The topics/situations are real to me and so much like how life happens.What other book might you compare The Corrections to and why?
Freedom; another Franzen work about a disfunctinal familyWhich scene was your favorite?
Chip's break up while greeting/entertaining his parents...................Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Mostly it made me remember and think, and anticipate, hoping for the best as each situation unfoldedSqueezing the fun out of disfunctional
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Wonderful study of growing old
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Depressing
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So like life
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