The Corrections

Independent

    ‘Compelling. A pleasure from beginning to end. Franzen, in one leap, has put himself into the league of Updike and Roth and that’s why there is so much excitement about it’
    DAVID SEXTON , Evening Standard

    ‘Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture’
    DON DELILLO
    ‘What this man writes is true, and what is true indicts us. The Corrections transcends its many wonderful moments to become that rarest of things, a contemporary novel that will endure’

    SVEN BIRKERTS , Esquire

    ‘Funny and deeply sad, large-hearted and merciless, The Corrections is a testament to the range and depth of pleasures that great fiction affords’
    DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

About the Author
    JONATHAN FRANZEN is the author of The Twenty-Seventh City, Strong Motion, How to Be Alone and The Discomfort Zone . His fiction and nonfiction appears frequently in the New Yorker and Harper’s Magazine , and he has been named one of the best American novelists under forty by Granta and the New Yorker . He lives in New York City.

    Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins author.

Also by Jonathan Franzen
    The Twenty-Seventh City
Strong Motion
How to Be Alone
The Discomfort Zone

Copyright
    Harper Perennial An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 77–85 Fulham Palace Road London w6 8jb
    www.harperperennial.co.uk
    1
    First published in paperback by Fourth Estate 2002 First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate 2001
    Jonathan Franzen asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
    A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library
    All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins eBooks.
    EPub Edition © FEBRUARY 2009 ISBN: 9780007317998

About the Publisher
    Australia
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd.
25 Ryde Road (PO Box 321)
Pymble, NSW 2073, Australia
http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com.au

    Canada
HarperCollins Canada
2 Bloor Street East - 20th Floor
Toronto, ON, M4W 1A8, Canada
http://www.harpercollinsebooks.ca

    New Zealand
HarperCollinsPublishers (New Zealand) Limited
P.O. Box 1 Auckland, New Zealand
http://www.harpercollinsebooks.co.nz

    United Kingdom
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
77-85 Fulham Palace Road
London, W6 8JB, UK
http://www.harpercollinsebooks.co.uk

    United States
HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
10 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022
http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com