Author

Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen is the American novelist behind The Corrections (National Book Award 2001), Freedom (2010), Purity (2015), and Crossroads (2021). His essays on technology, environment, and literary criticism run alongside the fiction.

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5.0

First published

2001

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The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen 2001 review. A Midwestern family gathers for one last Christmas as the patriarch slips into Parkinson's-related dementia. National Book Award 2001 and the canonical American family novel of its decade.