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...prize winners this year, seven journeyed to Harvard from abroad, from countries as far away as India, Lithuania and Australia...
...Chip, having lost his college teaching job for sleeping with one of his students, has found his way to free-market Lithuania, where he is helping a world-weary ex-politician fleece investors over the Internet. His prosperous brother Gary is drinking hard to reconcile himself to a manipulative wife and three sons who are drifting from his affections. Their sister Denise, a celebrity chef, makes reckless thrusts into other people's marriages. As anyone can tell you, "Christmas with the family" is a goal that has trouble written all over it. Trouble ensues...
...book about the discontents of three grown siblings and their aging, truculent parents be the Next Big American Novel? What if the book courses through the sorrows of marriage, the black comedies of sex, the mental chaos of old age and the surreal misfortunes of free-market Lithuania? What if it boasts some of the most lustrous writing of any novel in years? What we're asking is whether Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (Farrar Straus; 528 pages; $26) will become that rare thing, a literary work that everybody's reading? A lot of people are saying yes. The season...
...idea what to expect when we landed. I assumed we would be sent back to Frankfurt, and was planning to head for Lithuania, where friends could help me cross the border. Instead, there was an unusual absence of lines at the airport - the only people trying to get into Moscow during the coup were journalists. I flagged down a car to get into the city, and we quickly passed the first sign of the military takeover: an armored personnel carrier by the roadside. It had broken down. "Morons," the driver snarled as we drove past the soldiers. I began...
...doing its best to gut this past year, reported during the coup that some of the units moving into Moscow were in a very aggressive mood. As I heard this I was reminded of conversations a few months earlier, after the Vilnius killings. Then hospitable Airborne commanders based in Lithuania had remarked quietly over lunch that they could have "finished the job" - captured the Lithuanian parliament - in less than an hour. And the Lithuanians had been far better prepared than Yeltsin's supporters...