Jonathan Franzen The Corrections review, recensie en informatie Amerikaanse familieroman uit 2001. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The The Corrections van de uit Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Jonathan Franzen. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel De correcties.
Jonathan Franzen The Corrections review en recensie
- “A genuine masterpiece, the first great American novel of the twenty-first century.” (Elle)
- “Funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent.” (The Guardian)
- “A novel of outstanding sympathy, wit, moral intelligence and pathos, a family saga told with stylistic brio and psychological and political insight.” (Financial Times)
- “A big-hearted, panoramic American epic, intelligent and wise but also wildly, stonkingly funny.” (Independent)
- “Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture.” (Don DeLillo)
The Corrections
- Auteur: Jonathan Franzen (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse familieroman uit 2001
- Taal: Engels
- Eerste uitgever: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Omvang: 576 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- National Book Award for Fiction 2001
- Nederlandse vertaling: De correcties
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman van Jonathan Franzen uit 2001
The Lamberts – Enid, Alfred and their three grown-up children – are a troubled family living in a troubled age. After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid is ready to have some fun, but her husband Alfred is losing his mind to Parkinson’s. As his condition worsens, and the Lamberts are forced to face the long-buried secrets and failures that haunt them, Enid sets her heart on gathering everyone together for one last family Christmas.
Jonathan Franzen is born 17 August 1957 in Western Springs, 
Illinois in the United States. He isthe author of The Corrections, winner of the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/Faulkner. He is also the author of the novels The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, Freedom and Crossroads. and two works of nonfiction, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone. In 1996, he was named one of Grantas Best of Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.