The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() In his new novel, ''The Corrections,'' Mr. Buried beneath the Pynchonian pyrotechnics and Sinclair Lewisesque satire, however, were intimate family dramas that grounded the characters in a recognizable emotional reality and provided an Updikean portrait of the vagaries of domestic life. ![]() Jonathan Franzen's two earlier novels, ''The Twenty-Seventh City'' (1988) and ''Strong Motion'' (1992), were messy and wildly ambitious epics, crammed to overflowing with cautionary political plots and tendentious asides meant to add up to a dyspeptic portrait of America in the 1980's. ![]()
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