The Discomfort Zone
Author | : Jonathan Franzen |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2010-08-24 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780374707620 |
ISBN-13 | : 0374707626 |
Rating | : 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Discomfort Zone is Jonathan Franzen's tale of growing up, squirming in his own über-sensitive skin, from a "small and fundamentally ridiculous person," into an adult with strong inconvenient passions. Whether he's writing about the explosive dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship in the 1970s, the effects of Kafka's fiction on his protracted quest to lose his virginity, or the web of connections between bird watching, his all-consuming marriage, and the problem of global warming, Franzen is always feelingly engaged with the world we live in now. The Discomfort Zone is a wise, funny, and gorgeously written self-portrait by one of America's finest writers.