The Corrections
Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury 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...
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Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury 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 globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780374129989 (0374129983)
Publish date: September 15th 2001
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
Ich war schon ewig lange nicht mehr soweit, ein Buch fast abzubrechen wie dieses, weil es mich gar so geärgert hat. Ein Werk mit derart viel Potenzial verkommt ab der Hälfte nur noch zu einem geschwätzigen Stückerl Papier ohne Substanz, Entwicklung und Aussage.Ja Franzen kann tatsächlich ein bissche...
Incredibly long and tedious read, yet strangely addictive and enjoyable at the same time.
It has been a long time since I've read anything like this. I mostly avoid contemporary literature (except for the kind with spells and spaceships, and that is [let's be honest] mostly not literature) so 'The Corrections' came like a blow to the face.My mother is Enid. No she isn't, but Franzen's ch...
I started this review once already, struggled with it, and have decided to start completely over. The problem was that I was trying overly hard to justify my feelings. The words jumbled out, page after page, full of whining and excuses. I wanted to somehow convey my strong dislike for Franzen's pers...
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