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Jonathan Franzen : The Discomfort Zone : A Personal History - New

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Condition
Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ...
Subjects
Biographies & True Stories
Subject
Biography, Memoir
Publication Year
2006
Book Title
The Discomfort Zone
ISBN
9780007240586
EAN
9780007240586
Format
Unsewn / Adhesive Bound,Trade Paperback (Uk), Paperback
Language
English
Author
Jonathan Franzen
Publisher
Fourth Estate Ltd, Harpercollins Publishers
Topic
Biography: Literary

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This is a brilliant, award-winning memoir from the author of The Corrections . Jonathan Franzen arrived late, and last, in a family of boys in Webster Groves, Missouri. The Discomfort Zone is his intimate memoir of his growth from a 'small and fundamentally ridiculous person,' through an adolescence both excruciating and strangely happy, into an adult with embarrassing and unexpected passions. It's also a portrait of a middle-class family weathering the turbulence of the 1970s, and a vivid personal insight into the decades in which America took an angry turn away from its mid-century ideals. The stories told here draw on elements as varied as the effects of Kafka's fiction on Franzen's protracted quest to lose his virginity, the elaborate pranks that he and his friends orchestrated from the roof of his high school, his self-inflicted travails in selling his mother's house after her death, and the web of connections between his all-consuming marriage, the problem of global warming, and the life lessons to be learned in watching birds. These chapters of a Midwestern youth and a New York adulthood are warmed by the same combination of comic scrutiny and unqualified affection that characterize Franzen's fiction - but here the main character is the author himself. Sparkling, daring and arrestingly honest, Franzen narrates the formation of a unique mind and heart in the crucible of an everyday American family.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Fourth Estate Ltd, Harpercollins Publishers
ISBN-10
0007240589
ISBN-13
9780007240586
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95337595

Product Key Features

Format
Unsewn / Adhesive Bound,Trade Paperback (Uk), Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Biography: Literary
Author
Jonathan Franzen

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
London
Out-Of-Print Date
01/07/2011
Date of Publication
02/10/2006
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Author Biography
Jonathan Franzen is the author of 'The Twenty-Seventh City', 'Strong Motion' and 'The Corrections'. His fiction and nonfiction appear frequently in the New Yorker and Harper's, and he was named one of the best American novelists under forty by Granta and the New Yorker. He lives in New York City.

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