Word: lambertsã
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...home. Enid is determined to have one last Christmas at the family home, one that will make up for any and all of the imperfections that plague their lives. Before we get to Christmas, however, Franzen is busy sketching out the big picture details of American life through the Lamberts??€™ various misadventures. If a life is lived in the details, then Franzen’s grasp of the Lamberts??€™ inner and superficial lives is fabulous. He gives us striking and pitch-perfect accounts of the crises and triumphs and weird lines of internal reasoning exhibited...
...compelling picture of America, requisite for any so-called American novel, does indeed emerge, but not so much through Franzen’s explorations of sexuality, economic motivations and rewards or mental instabilities as through the Lamberts??€™ perceptions and reactions to those things. For in the end, the novel is about exactly what its title suggests. A correction in the stock market is but one of many kinds of corrections, or attempts at them, in the book. We can try to fix situations in our own lives, but a correction can also be produced seemingly naturally. A system...
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