The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture´ Don DeLillo 'Impossible to dislike, an unpretentious page-turner' Zadie Smith 'Compelling. A pleasure from beginning to end. Franzen, in one leap, has put himself into the league of Updike and Roth' Evening Standard A book which is funny, moving, generous, brutal and intelligent, and which poses the ultimate question: what life is for? And that is as much as anyone could ask' Guardian Intelligent, compellingly readable, funny and above all generous spirited, it is a rare thing, a modern novel with both head and heart´ Daily Mail