NP DeLillo alert

[S J Pate]

> >
> >No stranger to booksellers, this time Franzen trains his wit and
> >big-hearted scrutiny on the Lambert family and all their glorious
> >dysfunction. And if that universal theme isn't enough to entice, there are
> >pre-pub blurbs from Don DeLillo, David Foster Wallace and Michael
> >Cunningham--not to mention a note inside the front flap of the ARC in which
> >editor-in-chief Jonathan Galassi touts The Corrections as not only the
> >author's best book to date, but also one of the best books he's published
> >in 15 years at FSG.
> >

For those interested, DeLillo says:

"Jonathan Franzen has built a powerful novel out of the swarming 
consciousness of a marriage, a family, a whole culture--our culture. And he 
has done it with a sympathy and expansiveness that bends the edgy modern 
temper to a generous breadth of vision."

And, for good measure, Michael Cunningham compares it to White Noise. It's 
an extraordinary work, worthy of all that praise, too.


--Steven