Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. August 17, 1959
Birthday: August 17
THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.
source: Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.563, Macmillan
topic: Hurt, Years, Keys, Leakage, Contractions, Letdowns