Our Book Choice for December 2011/January 2012

We are currently reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen and will meet to discuss on Tuesday 17th January.

It's another book that will have a selection of different covers depending on which edition you manage to purchase.

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.

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.

If you want to know more about the author then here's a link. Jonathan Franzen - The Author

This month the group was torn between our chosen book (The Corrections) and Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively. So anyone who would like to read Moon Tiger 'as well as' there will also be a few of us doing the same.