The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen, 2001
A Midwestern family, three grown children and a failing patriarch, over one last Christmas — a comedy of money, pills and resentment.
Jonathan Franzen
Franzen's third novel won the 2001 National Book Award; that same autumn his public hesitation over Oprah Winfrey's book club made him far more famous than the prize did.
Feels like family, society and unease.
The arithmetic of cool, and who is left to do the ordinary work.
All around him, millions of newly minted American millionaires were engaged in the identical pursuit of feeling extraordinary - of buying the perfect Victorian, of skiing the virgin slope, of knowing the chef personally, of locating the beach that had no footprints. There were further tens of millions of young Americans who didn’t have money but were nonetheless chasing the Perfect Cool. And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary? Who would perform the thankless work of being comparatively uncool? Books by Jonathan Franzen
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