After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain of an affair with a married man-or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home.
Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, THE CORRECTIONS brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and sexual inhibitions into violent collision with the era of home surveillance, hands-off parenting, do-it-yourself mental healthcare, and globalized greed. Richly realistic, darkly hilarious, deeply humane, it confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of our most brilliant interpreters of American society and the American soul.
...Continua..et on rentre ainsi dans des limbes agaçants d'une histoire familiale terriblement commune où des personnages grotesques mais incroyablement vraisemblables passent d'un échec à l'autre. Un très bien écrit fragment qui ne raconte rien de spécial, rien de nouveau, et que pour cela met face à ce qu'on connait déjà très (trop) bien.
...e si entra così in un limbo aghiacciante di una storia familaile terribilmente comune dove dei personaggi grotteschi ma incredibilmente verosimili passano da un fallimento all'altro. Uno spaccato ben scritto che non racconata niente di speciale, niente di nuovo, e che proprio per questo ci mette di fornte a quello che già conosciamo molto (troppo) bene.
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