[home] [news] [this year's award] [publishers] [libraries] [award archive] [faqs] [dublin city public libraries] [IMPAC] [contact us]

The 2003 Award

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

Nominated by:

  • Zentral-und Landesbibliothek Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Stadtbucherei Frankfurt-am-Main, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Waterford County Library, Waterford, Ireland
  • Belfast Education and Library Board, Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Bibliotecas Publicas Municipales de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • Stadt-und Universitatsbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  • Chicago Public Library, Chicago, USA
  • Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, USA
  • Miami-Dade Public Library System, Miami, USA
  • Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee, USA
  • Richmond Public Library, Richmond, USA
  • Lincoln Library, Springfield, USA
  • District of Columbia Public Library, Washington D.C., USA

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Publisher of Nominated Editions: Farrer, Straus & Giroux 0374129983 : 03741001287 & Fourth Estate 1841157899 : 1841156728
the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors.
ABOUT THE BOOK
After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's Disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man - or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home.
Stretching from the Midwest at mid-century 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 globalised greed.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jonathan Franzen is the author of The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion. His fiction and non-fiction appear frequently in The New Yorker and Harper's, and he was named one of the best American novelists under forty by Granta and The New Yorker. The Corrections won the National Book Award 2001. He lives in New York City.

Find out more about the author & book

Read an excerpt from The Corrections.

A review of The Corrections.
Click here to send us an e-mail.

 

[home] [news] [this year's award] [publishers] [libraries] [award archive] [dublin city public libraries] [IMPAC] [faqs] [contact us]

Copyright © 2007 Dublin City Public Libraries