![]() ![]() Alfred is ill and as his condition worsens the whole family must face the failures, secrets and long-buried hurts that haunt them if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs. The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children - are a troubled family living in a troubled age. At once a moving family drama and a dissection of American society in an age of greed and globalism, 'The Corrections' emerges as a truly great American novel. Franzen paints a panoramic vision of America at the beginning of the 21st century, seen through the turbulent lives of the Lambert family. ![]()
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