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Franzen, Jonathan
by The Corrections
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0374129983
- ISBN 13
- 9780374129989
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About This Item
New York. 2001. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374129983. 568 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Lynn Buckley. keywords: Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Enid Lambert is terribly, terribly anxious. Although she would never admit it to her neighbors or her three grown children, her husband, Alfred, is losing his grip on reality. Maybe it's the medication that Alfred takes for his Parkinson's disease, or maybe it's his negative attitude, but he spends his days brooding in the basement and committing shadowy, unspeakable acts. More and more often, he doesn't seem to understand a word Enid says. Trouble is also brewing in the lives of Enid's children. Her older son, Gary, a banker in Philadelphia, has turned cruel and materialistic and is trying to force his parents out of their old house and into a tiny apartment. The middle child, Chip, has suddenly and for no good reason quit his exciting job as a professor at D------College and moved to New York City, where he seems to be pursuing a transgressive' lifestyle and writing some sort of screenplay. Meanwhile the baby of the family, Denise, has escaped her disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man - or so Gary hints. Enid, who loves to have fun, can still look forward to a final family Christmas and to the ten-day Nordic Pleasurelines Luxury Fall Color Cruise that she and Alfred are about to embark on. But even these few remaining joys are threatened by her husband's growing confusion and unsteadiness. As Alfred enters his final decline, the Lamberts must face the failures, secrets, and long-buried hurts that haunt them as a family if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs. inventory #30703 ISBN: 0374129983.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30703
- Title
- Franzen, Jonathan
- Author
- The Corrections
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374129983
- ISBN 13
- 9780374129989
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2001
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