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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
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ISBN10: 0312426402
ISBN13: 9780312426408
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Aug 21 2007
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.84 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780312426408
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Aug 21 2007
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.84 Depth: 8.22
Language: English
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.1 different editions
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