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25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR

'The first great American novel of the twenty-first century'ELLE

'Gluttonously fun, plotted like a museum heist'TONY TULATHIMUTTE

'Funny, poignant, soulful and savage' ELIZABETH DAY

A brilliantly perceptive and moving novel that announced Jonathan Franzen as one of our greatest living writers.

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.

'Compellingly readable, funny and above all generous spirited' Daily Mail

'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

25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR

'The first great American novel of the twenty-first century'ELLE

'Gluttonously fun, plotted like a museum heist'TONY TULATHIMUTTE

'Funny, poignant, soulful and savage' ELIZABETH DAY

A brilliantly perceptive and moving novel that announced Jonathan Franzen as one of our greatest living writers.

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.

'Compellingly readable, funny and above all generous spirited' Daily Mail

'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

Über den Autor

Jonathan Franzen won the National Book Award in 2001 for 'The Corrections'. He is the author of three other critically acclaimed novels, 'The Twenty-Seventh City', 'Strong Motion' and most recently 'Freedom', as well as two works of non-fiction: 'How to be Alone' and 'The Discomfort Zone'. He lives in New York City and Santa Cruz, California.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Übersetzungstitel: Die Korrekturen
Inhalt: 653 S.
ISBN-13: 9780007232444
ISBN-10: 0007232446
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 154708
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Franzen, Jonathan
Hersteller: Harper Collins Publ. UK
Fourth Estate
Harper Perennial
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 199 x 128 x 47 mm
Von/Mit: Jonathan Franzen
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.07.2007
Gewicht: 0,465 kg
Artikel-ID: 102174434

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