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...Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...print for months; advance reader’s copies of The Corrections came with a letter from its highly respected editor and publisher, Jonathan Galassi, who called it “one of the very best [books] we’ve published in my fifteen years at FSG [Farrar, Straus & Giroux],” praise not to be taken lightly; the New York Times ran feature articles in both its magazine and book review; and the excitement led Time magazine, that fearless observer and maker of mainstream America to wonder if the book might be “the Next...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Here's how you know you have written one of the year's most anticipated novels. In the spring your publisher, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, distributes 3,500 advance copies to reviewers and booksellers. Each comes with a note from your celebrated editor, Jonathan Galassi, the head of Farrar, Straus, who calls your book one of the best that his house, also home to Tom Wolfe, Scott Turow and the poet Seamus Heaney, has issued in 15 years. Next there's a movie deal from the producer Scott Rudin, whose credits include Wonder Boys and A Civil Action. Then...
...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's other anticipated novels include The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer, Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende, Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul and The Feast...