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From: Evening Standard - London
Date: 20011107
Author:CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

ICAN never remember whether Leo Tolstoy opens his Anna Karenina by saying that all happy families are the same while all unhappy ones are unhappy in a different way, or whether its the other way around. I privately think that the observation is pretty nonsensical in either of its versions, so I am probably uniquely unqualified to discuss Jonathan Franzen's astonishingly successful new novel The Corrections.

The ostensible theme is family life on the verge of a mental, physical and moral breakdown. But the title is also a metaphor for society, and in particular for the oncestable American ...

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