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.
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.
