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Story that makes you fall in love with the talent of the author, Mr. Jonathan Franzen. Story of the Lambert family. Alfred, the patriarch, suffers from Parkinson's disease and dementia. Enid, his wife, suffers her husband. Gary copes with depression and trying to keep his family alive. Chip, the middle child, is a university lecturer whose affair with a co-ed forces him to Lithunua. Denise, the youngest, is a successful chef, but she struggles with men and eventually has a few lesbian experience
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I am not sure what I think of The Corrections. Undoubtably, it is very well done. It is also a book that I think of as very male, in a particularly pompous way. In a move that will make sense only to those who attended Swarthmore with me, this is the kind of novel that a Spike boy would write. Given that Frazen went to Swarthmore, I can map him exactly on to the social scene of that small college and he would probably have been someone who made it clear that in no way was I (or about 1300 of the
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I didn't necessarily want to like this book, but he is an incredibly talented writer. I can't say any of the characters are all that likable, but Franzen does a good job showing some of the uglier human emotions.
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Narrator was fabulous !! I loved this book and found it a perfect description of a dysfunctional family but not depressing like dysfunctional Oprah books! And a great sense of humor too! I laughed out loud !
Highly recommend!
Highly recommend!
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