TY - BOOK AU - Franzen,Jonathan TI - The corrections SN - 0374129983 (alk. paper) AV - PS 3556.R352 F837c 2001 U1 - 813 PY - 2001/// CY - New York PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux KW - Married women KW - Fiction KW - Parkinson's disease KW - Patients KW - Parent and adult child KW - Middle West KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcsh N2 - This novel revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the mid-twentieth century to "one last Christmas" together near the turn of the millennium. All five members of the Lambert family get their due, as everybody's lives swirl out of control. The author intends to deliver a tragicomic portrait of a flawed nation with the equally flawed notion of perfectibility at its heart UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol051/2001033478.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol021/2001033478.html ER -