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HardCover. Pub Date:2009-05-15 Pages: 640 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK 'The Corrections' is one of five classic Fourth Estate books to be released as numbered. collectable editions to mark the 25th anniversary.The books will be beautifully produced hardbacks. limited to 2000 copies each. with jackets designed by some of the finest artists at work today.The Lamberts - Enid and Alfred and their three grown-up children - are a troubled family living in a troubled age.Alfred is ill and as his condition worsens the whole family must face the failures. secrets and long-buried hurts that haunt them if they are to make the corrections that each desperately needs.Stretching from the Midwest in the mid-century to Wall Street and Eastern Europe in the age of globalised greed. The Corrections brings an old-time America of freight trains and civic duty into wild collisi...