Talk:The Corrections

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There is a link at the bottom of the page to awards - can someone add the *real* awards the novel has won to the awards section? Also I know it was nominated as one of Time's list of the 100 Greatest Novels since 1926

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St. Jude is in Kansas? Northeast Kansas? It has been a while since I read the book, but I don't think the state is ever named, is it? Also, the phrase "one last Christmas" (the title of a section of the novel) was modified to "one last Christmas together" in quotation marks. If this is a direct quotation from the novel, it should be cited; if not, the quotation marks should be removed. --ShelfSkewed Talk 14:38, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Whoops, that's what happens when you "read" audiobooks. I'm fairly sure about the direct quote, much less so (now) about Kansas. They're hardly important even if they are correct, so I've undone them. Thanks, --jnestorius^(talk) 08:14, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Your mind isn't completely playing tricks on you. I was skimming through the novel, and Alfred is from Kansas and attended the University of Kansas. But there's also a passage in which Alfred, in St. Jude at the time, imagines retiring to "Kansas or Nebraska", which suggests that that's not where he is at the moment. (St. Jude, by the way, is a stand-in for St. Louis, Missouri, and Webster Groves, the St. Louis suburb where Franzen grew up.) I wouldn't be surprised if the quote was accurate, but I couldn't track it down. Cheers--ShelfSkewed Talk 14:41, 30 January 2008 (UTC)