Intelligent compellingly readable funny & above all generous spirited it is a rare thing a modern novel with both head & heart' Daily Mail Funny & deeply sad large-hearted & merciless The Corrections is a testament to the range & depth of pleasures great fiction affords' David Foster Wallace After fifty years as a wife & mother Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun Unfortunately her husband Alfred is losing his sanity & their children have long since fled for the catastrophes of their own lives As Alfred's condition worsens & the Lamberts are forced to face their secrets & failures Enid sets her heart on one last family Christmas Bringing the old world of civic virtue & sexual inhibition into violent collision with the era of hands-off parenting do-it-yourself mental healthcare & globalised greed The Corrections' confirms Jonathan Franzen as one of the most brilliant interpreters of the American soul