American novelist who wrote The Corrections and Freedom — meticulous novels about American family life — and became a controversial figure for his positions on literary fiction, celebrity, and the novel's place in culture.
The Corrections: a multigenerational family novel against the backdrop of pharmaceutical culture and economic decline. Freedom: a Tolstoyan novel of American marriage and political disappointment. His Harper's essay 'Perchance to Dream' (1996) was a manifesto for the social novel against entertainment culture.
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