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The Discomfort Zone - A Personal History (Paperback)
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The Discomfort Zone - A Personal History (Paperback)
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A brilliant personal history from the award-winning author of 'The
Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen, bestselling author of 'Freedom' and
the highly acclaimed 'The Corrections', 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. He tells of 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, the web of connections between his
all-consuming marriage, the problem of global warming, and the life
lessons to be learned in watching birds. Sparkling, daring and
arrestingly honest, 'The Discomfort Zone' is warmed by the same
combination of comic scrutiny and unqualified affection that
characterize Franzen's fiction. It narrates the formation of a
unique mind and heart in the crucible of an everyday American
family.
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