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Review: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
After the hype, Blake Morrison finds in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections the satisfactions of a serious soap opera The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 568pp, Fourth Estate, £17.99 It is hard to approach...
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Observer review: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen shut out the world to write the Great American Novel and produced The CorrectionsThe CorrectionsJonathan FranzenFourth Estate £17.99, pp568The greatest burst of wealth creation the...
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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, read by Dylan Baker
Running time 9hrs Harper Collins, £15.99 Enid Lambert takes happy pills to blot out the misery of 48 years of marriage to her stubborn, moralising husband, Alfred. A life of unrequited love and...
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Ducking out
When Jonathan Franzen's acclaimed novel, The Corrections, was selected by Oprah Winfrey to appear on her TV book club, he was dragged back to his home town to be filmed, quite literally in his own back...
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Review: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Nicholas Lezard gets round to reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. He now wonders what took him so long The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen (Fourth Estate, £7.99) What, you don't have your own...
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The Corrections: simile
As a service to reading groups John Mullan deconstructs a notable novel. This month it is Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections. Week one: simileThe Corrections gives us the exactly observed circumstances...
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The Corrections: telephone conversations
As a service to reading groups, John Mullan deconstructs a notable novel available in paperback. This month it is Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections. Week two: telephone conversationsNovels about...
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The Corrections: lists
As a service to reading groups, John Mullan deconstructs a notable novel available in paperback. This month he looks at The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. Week three: listsPeople accumulate things....
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The Corrections: meals
As a service to reading groups, John Mullan deconstructs a notable novel available in paperback. This month it is Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections. Week four: mealsWhat kinds of novels feature meals?...
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Zoe Williams on Jonathan Franzen's new memoir
When Jonathan Franzen published his bestselling novel The Corrections, readers wondered how much it owed to his own life. Does his new memoir tell us any more about the man? Zoe Williams meets...
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Guardian book club: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Beyond all the hyperbole, and the noise about Great American novels, this is actually a brilliant, and brilliantly funny, bookMy original intention when writing this piece was to ask: have you managed...
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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Week one: comedyHow bad can things get? Thirtysomething Chip Lambert has lost his academic job after a sexual misdemeanour (and because he helped the student he was sleeping with write her essay) and...
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Book club: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Week two: dialogueThe French have long had a phrase for it: un dialogue de sourds. "A dialogue of the deaf", as it has been translated into an English idiom, is a conversation between two people who...
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Guardian book club: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Week three: Jonathan Franzen on writing The CorrectionsWhen I went to work in earnest on The Corrections, in the mid-90s, I found my way blocked by shame. I was ashamed of almost everything I'd done in...
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Guardian book club: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Week four: readers' responsesThere is no doubt that Jonathan Franzen's novel The Corrections provokes as well as enthuses readers. The many readers who have commented on the Book Club website in the...
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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen will be in conversation with John Mullan at Kings Place on 5 OctoberDate: Tuesday 5 OctoberTime: 7.00pmVenue: Hall One, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AGPrice:£9.50Jonathan...
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Observer review: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen shut out the world to write the Great American Novel and produced The CorrectionsThe CorrectionsJonathan FranzenFourth Estate £17.99, pp568The greatest burst of wealth creation the...
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The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, read by Dylan Baker
Running time 9hrs Harper Collins, £15.99 Enid Lambert takes happy pills to blot out the misery of 48 years of marriage to her stubborn, moralising husband, Alfred. A life of unrequited love and...
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Ducking out
When Jonathan Franzen's acclaimed novel, The Corrections, was selected by Oprah Winfrey to appear on her TV book club, he was dragged back to his home town to be filmed, quite literally in his own back...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Nicholas Lezard gets round to reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. He now wonders what took him so long The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen (Fourth Estate, £7.99) What, you don't have your own...
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