Jonathan Franzen is the author of Freedom, selected for Oprah's Book Club, The Twenty-Seventh City and Strong Motion, and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In 1996, he was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. The Corrections won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer and Pen/Faulkner. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.
Winner of the National Book Award for FictionNominated for the National Book Critics Circle AwardAn American Library Association Notable BookJonathan Franzen's third novel, "The Corrections," is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of greed and globalism. Franzen brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty, of Cub Scouts and Christmas cookies and sexual inhibitions, into brilliant collision with the modern absurdities of brain science, home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and the anti-gravity New Economy. With "The Corrections," Franzen emerges as one of our premier interpreters of American society and the American soul.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.
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喬納森曾經登上美國時代周刊的封麵,給人的印象是一個鬍子拉碴,不善言辭的呆闆文藝人。的確,在這個fast food的年代,花十年的功夫寫一本書的作傢(其實大部分人也隻能稱之為作者)寥寥無幾,尤其是寫比較艱難的社會寫實題材。想想吧,描述一個患有帕金森的父親和一個患有憂鬱...
評分當意識到自己已經浪費瞭太多時間瀏覽(甚至隻是刷新)網頁,我(仍然是通過點擊)買來瞭kindle閱覽器,而入賬的第一本書,是喬納森•弗蘭岑(Jonathan Franzen)的《如何孤獨》(How to Be Alone, 2002)。弗蘭岑以抨擊傳媒時代、宣揚文以載道著稱,我想我有必要接受他的再教...
評分喬納森•弗蘭岑說:“這本書忠實地記載瞭我這個人。” 2001年《糾正》齣版之時,他的父親已於1995年過世,母親也在前幾年過世,他十四年的婚姻也早已崩解。這時候,他自己,是他唯一的“傢”。 他齣生於1959年,工程師父親,傢庭主婦母親。他是個老來子,傢裏還有兩個大很多...
評分【讀品】羅豫/文 崇尚標新立異的年代,沒有底氣的作傢恐怕還不敢老老實實寫小說。美國作傢喬納森·弗蘭岑的《糾正》一書,如果不是這個奬那個奬拿瞭一大堆,商業宣傳上會相當缺乏“賣點”:主角是一個再平常不過的美國傢庭,隨便扔塊石頭到大洋彼岸就能砸到這麼一傢子。“人生...
評分我不止一次對莉莉說,大洋彼岸的生活是平靜的,國人對它的嚮往毋寜說對一種田園生活的渴望。它能讓人安靜思考一些事情,畢竟在我們這塊土地上,信息量太大,製度的缺陷又如此顯而易見。 但對生活在那裏的人來說,可選擇的道路反而比我們要少得多。書裏的人物,都像順撇一樣固執...
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Good American story, but not as good as “the freedom”. Bit too labored at times.
評分Good American story, but not as good as “the freedom”. Bit too labored at times.
評分Good American story, but not as good as “the freedom”. Bit too labored at times.
評分Good American story, but not as good as “the freedom”. Bit too labored at times.
評分Good American story, but not as good as “the freedom”. Bit too labored at times.
Corrections 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載