![]() Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: to bring her family together for one last Christmas at home. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work.Īnd Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and beauty down the drain over an affair with a married man. ![]() The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself that, despite clear signs to the contrary, he is not clinically depressed. 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 Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century -a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes.Īfter almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. ![]()
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