The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

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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 your middle-class family weathering the turbulence of the 1970s, and a vivid personal history of the decades where America turned from its midcentury idealism and became a more polarized society.

The story Franzen tells here draws on elements as varied as the explosive dynamics of your Christian youth fellowship in the 1970s, the effects of Kafka's fiction on his protracted quest to reduce his virginity, the elaborate pranks that he and his friends orchestrated from the roof of his senior 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 condition of global warming, and the life span lessons to be learned in watching birds.

These chapters of your Midwestern youth and a New York adulthood are warmed by the same mixture of comic scrutiny and unqualified affection that characterize Franzen's fiction, but here the main character is the author himself. Sparkling, daring, arrestingly honest, The Discomfort Zone narrates the formation of a unique mind and heart in the crucible of a day to day American family.


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HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Language

English

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DATE

2006-09

Author

Jonathan Franzen

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