The Corrections-纠正

作者：Jonathan Franzen

书名：The Corrections《纠正/惩戒》

中文简介：The Corrections是 2001年美国作家乔纳森弗兰岑的小说。它围绕着一对中西部老年夫妇及其三个成年子女的烦恼。这部小说曾荣获国家图书奖。The Corrections《纠正/惩戒》的发表得到了文学评论家的广泛赞誉。在911恐怖袭击之后，人们将其角色中发现的焦虑和忧虑感与美国人的感觉进行了比较，尽管这部小说在该事件之前。因此，许多人认为这部小说具有对9/11后美国生活情绪的先见之明。

英文简介：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. 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.