Radio review: Franzen at the crossroads
Reviewed this week
The Corrections BBC Radio 4
The Niall Boylan Show Classic Hits 4FM
It’s a safe bet that some of you reading this will have been among the 3.1 million people who bought The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen’s hugely successful 2001 novel about American family life.
The book dug up and resurrected a literary device that had fallen out of favour in US literary circles by the late 20th century (give or ...