Franzen, Jonathan
Corrections, The

Imprint: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001
Edition: Third Printing
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

A tragicomedic novel of a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes, dealing with depression, Parkinson's Disease, children living their own catastrophic lives, job loss, disastrous marriage, and various other maladies. Hardcover with dust jacket, 567pp., book shows several tiny spots along pagination ends. A nice copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Near Fine

Stock number: 00012202. ISBN: 0374129983

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: JB Books

$US 14.00

Franzen, Jonathan
THE CORRECTIONS

Imprint: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover

This is the real (relatively rare) first edition with the errata slip laid in ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 568 pages, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Stock number: 131. ISBN: 0374129983

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Worldwide Booksearch Service

$US 95.00

Franzen, Jonathan
THE CORRECTIONS

Imprint: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover

A crisp clean first edition (as stated)not an ex-lib edition: Jonathan Franzen's exhilarating novel The Corrections tells a spellbinding story with sexy comic brio, and evokes a quirky family akin to Anne Tyler's , only bitter. Franzen's great at describing Christmas homecomings gone awr y, cruise-ship follies, self-deluded academics, breast-obsessed screenwrite rs, stodgy old farts and edgy Tribeca bohemians equally at sea in their liv es, and the mad, bad, dangerous worlds of the Internet boom and the fission ing post-Soviet East. All five members of the Lambert family get their due, as everybody's lives swirl out of control. Paterfamilias Alfred is slipping into dementia, even as one of his inventions inspires a pharmaceutical giant to revolutionize treatment of his disease. His stubborn wife, Enid, specializes in denial; so do their kids, each in an idiosyncratic way. Their hepcat son, Chip, lost a college sinecure by seducing a student, and his new career as a screenwriter is in peril. Chip's sister, Denise, is a chic chef perpetually in hot water, romantically speaking; banker brother Gary wonders if his stifling marriage is driving him nuts. We inhabit these troubled minds in turn, sinking into sorrow punctuated by laughter, reveling in Franzen's satirical eye: Gary in recent years had observed, with plate tectonically cumulative anxiety, that population was continuing to flow out of the Midwest and toward the cooler coasts.... Gary wished that all further migration [could] be banned and all Midwesterners encouraged to revert to eating pasty foods and wearing dowdy clothes and playing board games, in order that a strat, Near Fine/Near Fine

Stock number: RWARE0000021457. ISBN: 9780374100124

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Infinity Books Japan

¥ 1,000.00 (approx. $US 9.10 )

Franzen, Jonathan
The Corrections

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 568 pages. The author's breakthrough third novel. One of the finest American novels of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a regular first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out upon publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections". The "masterpiece" (The New York Times) that took him ten years to write, during which time he was largely silent. In America, that usually means the end of one's artistic career. "The brightest, boldest, and most ambitious novel I've read in many years. With this dazzling work, Franzen gives notice that from now on, he is only going to hunt with the big cats" (Pat Conroy). An absolute "must-have" title for Jonathan Franzen collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Jonathan Franzen. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The Erratum Slip is laid-in: "We have discovered that the text on pages 430 and 431 was reversed in this printing. Page 431 should be read before page 430. We apologize for this error". It also comes with a pristine copy of the Souvenir Announcement of the event during which his signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. It is one of the nicest signed copies we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Selected by The New Yorker Magazine as one of "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century", a selection that was prescient because he had not written anything in almost a decade. Winner of the National Book Award in 2001 for "The Corrections". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JONATHAN FRANZEN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374129983.

Stock number: 22056. ISBN: 0374129983

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: ModernRare

$US 100.00

Franzen, Jonathan
THE CORRECTIONS: A NOVEL

Imprint: Picador, 2002
Binding: Paperback

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Winner of the 2001 National Book Award for Fiction 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., Very Good

Stock number: RWARE0000038546. ISBN: 9780312421274

Bookseller's details and sales conditions: Infinity Books Japan

¥ 600.00 (approx. $US 5.46 )