Volume 48, Number 14 · September 20, 2001
Nuclear Fission
By John Leonard
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 568 pp., $26.00
When Alfred Lambert plunges from the top deck of the Scandinavian cruise ship Gunnar Myrdal eight stories down into the North Atlantic, past the Henrik Ibsen Promenade, the Ingmar Bergman Cinema, the Alfred Nobel Infirmary, the Knut Hamsun Reading Room, the Par Lagerkvist Taproom, the Soren Kierkegaard Dining Room, and the Pippi Longstocking Ballroom—where Enid Lambert, his wife of forty-seven years, happens to be listening to a lecture on 'Surviving the Corrections' of a market economy—he will briefly recall long ago reading The Chronicles of Narnia to his children:
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