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The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 2001
Pages
Pages 570

An ageing Midwestern couple's three grown children scatter into careers, marriages and addictions gone wrong, and their mother spends the book scheming to get everyone home for one last Christmas.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen

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