| The Corrections is a grandly entertain-ing novel for the new century--a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down inan age of easy fixes. After ahnost fifty years as a wife and moth-er, Enid Lambert is ready to have some tim.Unfortunately, her hushand, Alfred, is losinghis sanity to Parkinson s disease, and their chil-dren have long since flown the family nest tothe catastrophes of their own liv/es. The oldest,GAIT, a once-stable portfolio manager and fam-ily man, is trying to convince his wife and him-self, despite clear signs to the contrary,, that heis not clinically depressed. The middle child,Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academicjob and is flailing spectacularly at his new line ofwork. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped adisastrous marriage only to pour her youth andbeauty down the drain of an affair with a mar-tied man--or so her mother fears. Desperate |
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