The corrections jonathan franzen

Celebrated talk-show host Oprah Winfrey and de mode bespectacled novelist Jonathan Franzen have officially ended their decade-long enmity. Recall back to 2001, to the snub that launched 1,000 quips: Franzen referred to several of Oprah’s book-club picks as “schmaltzy” and “one-dimensional.” In response, Oprah, who had recently chosen Franzen’s The Corrections for said book club, summarily rescinded her invitation for the author to appear on her show. Almost immediately, Franzen hedged and…

Read 1,021 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a collection of essays t…

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Twenty years after his era-defining masterpiece, The Corrections, the author’s latest novel is the first in a trilogy about the travails of a white middle-class family in the American Midwest

Franzen has written an American tragedy, made all the more resonant by the fact that it’s a tragedy we recognize, one that most of us know firsthand. Going home for the holidays has never seemed so sinister or profound. - David L. Ulin FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with erratum slip laid in; SIGNED BY JONATHAN FRANZEN. Winner of the National Book Award for 2001. Franzen’s brilliant achievement is that he creates a set of

In Franzen’s new novel, the members of a suburban Chicago family headed by a pastor confront crises of faith and morality.

A couple of weeks ago I attended an author talk with Jonathan Franzen. The "Corrections" author dropped these tidbits of wisdom that I loved.

While reading The Corrections, I remember taking lots of breaks, often overwhelmed and, sometimes forcing myself to read. But I kept reading; I couldn't put

At a time when the trend in fiction has been toward specialization, Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections and the new Freedom, is a devotee of the all-embracing, way-we-live-now novel

Read 11.8k reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. "The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic …